When I'm thinking about going on a date with some guy or considering liking him, it really doesn't matter what they do or how that affects my career.
Taylor SwiftThe song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor SwiftSilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
Taylor SwiftI don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.
Taylor SwiftI think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Taylor SwiftIt’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love
Taylor SwiftI never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
Taylor SwiftI'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.
Taylor SwiftI'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.
Taylor SwiftI 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!
Taylor SwiftSitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
Taylor SwiftFor 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.
Taylor SwiftOne of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me.... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor SwiftI once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
Taylor SwiftNo matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Taylor SwiftYou should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!
Taylor SwiftI don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
Taylor SwiftWith your face and your beautiful eyes and the coversations with the little white lies and the faded picture of a beautiful lie you carry me from your car up the stairs,and I broke down crying was she worth this mess? After everything and that little black dress.After everything i must confess...I need you <3'':) -Taylor Swift
Taylor SwiftTime 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.
Taylor SwiftI only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.
Taylor SwiftOnce upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye, we got onto something, I hold on to the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding, cuz it seems to me, this thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell me cuz one second is perfect now you're halfway out the door. And I stood at the phone, you still haven't called. And you feel so below you, can't feel nothing at all. And I flashback to when he said forever and always.
Taylor SwiftMy 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.
Taylor SwiftMusic is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.
Taylor SwiftI was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.
Taylor SwiftYou have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.
Taylor SwiftAnd I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
Taylor SwiftWhen I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.
Taylor SwiftI feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
Taylor SwiftI've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
Taylor SwiftI could wait patiently, but I really wish you would: Drop everything now, meet me in the pourin' rain, Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile Hit me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down, Give me somethin' that'll haunt me when you're not around; Cause I see sparks fly whenever you . . . smile.
Taylor SwiftEvery day was a struggle. Forget making plans for life - we were just trying to make it to next week.
Taylor SwiftSo there are different examples of fairy tales, and sometimes I believe in them and sometimes I don't.
Taylor SwiftI didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.
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