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.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.