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.
Taylor SwiftI don't think there's such a thing as falling in love too easily or falling too fast. Or loving someone too soon or trusting someone too soon... I've never treated two relationships the same. Some people move you and some people don't.
Taylor SwiftDifferent phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So itโs not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasnโt been boy-centric.
Taylor SwiftI heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't imagine going through that. If you know that's going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I'd rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?
Taylor SwiftWhen you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.
Taylor SwiftThe Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.
Taylor SwiftSometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.
Taylor SwiftIn a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
Taylor Swift(Talks about Miley Cyrus 'I always thought I'd be really fun to sing a song with Miley.
Taylor SwiftI got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.
Taylor SwiftYou can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor SwiftLive your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.
Taylor SwiftI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
Taylor SwiftI would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.
Taylor SwiftI've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.
Taylor SwiftWhen I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.
Taylor SwiftI can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.
Taylor SwiftSeeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.
Taylor SwiftI fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.
Taylor SwiftIf you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.
Taylor SwiftI go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time
Taylor SwiftYou meet someone and itโs so much more than meeting them. Itโs so much bigger and itโs like youโre enchanted by them.
Taylor SwiftI took a chance, I took a shot And you may think Iโm bullet-proof, but Iโm not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are
Taylor SwiftIt's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.
Taylor SwiftI want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.
Taylor SwiftMusic is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor SwiftMy first memory of loving music happened so early. We would always go to the beach in the summer and I would run from blanket to blanket, from family to family and just sing Lion King songs acapella.
Taylor SwiftI think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either
Taylor SwiftI definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider flawless - then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful.
Taylor SwiftEver since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.
Taylor SwiftYou start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you...don't try to hide it. I don't try to blend in anymore, it's all about standing out.
Taylor SwiftMy 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.
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