Top 155 Taylor Swift Quotes

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

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.

‘Love Story‘ I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

On ‘Grey‘s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ’cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

The song ‘Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

I’ve been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what‘s going on in their love lives.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

One 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.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‘All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,’ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

One element of Madonna‘s career that really takes center stage is how many times she‘s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I always have to be writing.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

For 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.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

For me, ‘risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

For some reason, I’m really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

Most 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.

Songs 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.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‘Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.’

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.

You 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.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

‘Mean’ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Sitting 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.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

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

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

For 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.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

People haven‘t always been there for me, but music always has.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

I 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.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don’t know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

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.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

I 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.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

I don’t have big security guards. I don’t have an entourage.

My imagination is a twisted place.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

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.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

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

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

You 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.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they’re so awesome and they give me great presents.

I 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.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

What 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.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

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.