I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.