When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
Taylor SwiftYes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these peopleโs house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldnโt kill of them because thatโd be a bad Christmas.
Taylor SwiftAs I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
Taylor SwiftI'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.
Taylor SwiftWhen I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.
Taylor SwiftI think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.
Taylor SwiftWhat makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor SwiftI've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
Taylor SwiftI would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.
Taylor SwiftI want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
Taylor SwiftSongs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor SwiftShe's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress
Taylor SwiftI think that itโs fearless to fall for your best friend, even though heโs in love with someone else.
Taylor SwiftIf I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Taylor Swiftso i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.
Taylor SwiftWhen 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.
Taylor SwiftRyan 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.
Taylor SwiftYou will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.
Taylor SwiftOnce you think about it, aren't the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people's opinions having more fun than those judging them?
Taylor SwiftFor everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Taylor SwiftBand-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.
Taylor SwiftIf you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.
Taylor SwiftLoving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street; faster than the winds, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly.
Taylor SwiftMost of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
Taylor SwiftSay it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you'll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying 'I could've, but it's too late now.'
Taylor SwiftWhen you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
Taylor SwiftAs you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.
Taylor SwiftSo many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
Taylor SwiftI would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
Taylor SwiftPeople don't take you seriously if you scream, if you raise your voice, especially when you're a 19-year-old girl.
Taylor SwiftIt was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.
Taylor SwiftI daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.
Taylor SwiftI wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.
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