Taylor Swift Quotes.
I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.’
For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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.
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
I always have to be writing.
It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‘I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.’
When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.
There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.
I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.
The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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.
It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.
My imagination is a twisted place.
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you’re that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that’s when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.
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 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.
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again….even though every time you’ve tried before you’ve lost.
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
All of my songs are autobiographical.
As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‘All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,’ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.
I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.
I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.
I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you’ll have to say goodbye.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.
When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.
You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.
I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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!
A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.
My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a ‘home base‘ and stick with your comfort style.
Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.
I think every girl‘s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.
I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.
I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.
You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.
I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.
My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
For me, ‘risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you’d see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.
I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.
I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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.
I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.
I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
I get nervous for everything – literally everything.
I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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.
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.
If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
The longer you’re with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.
I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.
When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.
I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.