Taylor Swift's Quotes

I always have to be writing.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.