Taylor Swift Quotes

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

People put you down because you're above them.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

I do write nice songs about the guys who are nice to me! Eventually, I'm sure one of them will write a response - that's a pretty scary concept, actually! But I make sure I only write bad songs about the ones who deserve it.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)

No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I've learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren't invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don't let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.

When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.

At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

You've got every right to a beautiful life

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.

I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here...The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello—and it’s magical—we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone—and it’s magical—we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

Two years gives you enough time to grow and to change, and to, you know, change your priorities. Change where you live, change your hair, change what you believe in, change who you hang out with, what’s influencing you, what’s inspiring you. And in the process of all of those changes in the last two years, my music changed.

I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

There's always that seventh-grade girl who looks like she's 25. And you're like, How do you do it? How do you do it, Sarah Jaxheimer?Why is your hair always so shiny?!

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!