It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

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!