Taylor Swift Quotes

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

You and I both know there's got to be some greater storyline for you than 'girl gets heart broken, was sad forever'. I think a nice one would be 'girl gets heart broken, was sad for a while but in her heartbreak she found freedom, friends, and the ability to look back and laugh at all she'd learned. She now lives her life on her own terms and still has fantastic hair.'

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.

I write songs about what I go through.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

I think that the idea of finding another person to share your life with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life. And yes, living your dreams is so important too, and a lot of times I’ve put that before everything else. But then you get to a place where the whole time you’re living these dreams, you look beside you to say to someone, “Hey, isn’t this so much fun?” And if there’s no one there to say it to, what’s the point?

Don't ever regret being honest. Period.

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

Right now I'm just single, but I'm really looking forward to the day when I'm happily single.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Lady gagas "hair" is my theme song.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right.

And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

I don’t think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

I think doing something that's different, that's out of your comfort zone is important.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.