I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we’d sold 35 million records as a band, and I’d had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success.
I’m absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!
My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we’d go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor – or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.
Or like in the early 70’s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.
Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I’m not kidding.
I think Taylor Swift, in the days when she was kind of doing more country style, definitely was a big inspiration for me.
My first memory of flipping a house was when I was pregnant with my daughter Taylor. We bought a condo in Santa Ana, and I think we paid around $120,000. It was really exciting because when we went to auction, it was the first property we went to bid on and we won it.
I don’t know if I want her to sing it with us, but I’m curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I’m curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They’re phenomenal writers.
It’s very special to be the first winner in New Zealand. Phil Taylor has always said to me about trying to be the first player to win when we go to a new country and I’m over the moon to do that in Auckland.
Grace Kelly is my main inspiration, for her timeless beauty. I like Jennifer Lawrence for her fun, down-to-earth style, and Taylor Swift is always elegant.
You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift ‘Trouble’ song? I can’t resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
My favorite Taylor Swift song is between ‘Blank Space’ and ‘Wildest Dreams.’
I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!’
Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.
I don’t know why I keep saying this, and I don’t know why I keep using their names… And I’m not dogging them. I’m not slandering them. I’m not saying they are bad musicians. But how can Taylor Swift or Justin Timberlake win for R&B and funk? They are pop singers.
I learned a long time ago, Don’t ever doubt the power of Taylor Swift.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn’t too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.
My taste is very ’70s, like Garfunkel and James Taylor, so not too far from country, but not really the mainstream country that’s on the radio.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don’t ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in – I would have been in high school – 2005 or something.
Robin Lord Taylor is a fantastic actor.
Paul Taylor’s ‘Offenbach Overtures’ has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.
In those days, I auditioned for everything MGM made while I was under contract. Not for the roles Elizabeth Taylor eventually got, of course.
I love Adriana Lima, Taylor Hill, Naomi Campbell – I could go on and on.
Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.
Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it’s an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that’s a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I’ll make my way up to that.
We don’t want to be part of some Tidal ‘streaming revolution,’ nor do we want to be Taylor Swift and be anti-it.
I always feel as if I’m a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Mostly i write on an unplugged Mustang or a Baby Taylor.
If anyone has the opportunity to connect the dots and look at the directors I’ve worked with, from TV to film, there are some heavy hitters, from Taylor Hackford to John Singleton.
The one thing I do know is that I’m the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
There are a lot of girls I’ve found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that’s really attractive to me. I have a soft spot for southern girls who are sweet, like Taylor Swift!
Country music has taken so many forms, and I’ve always contended that it does not matter if the casual listener falls in love with country music through Florida Georgia Line, Taylor Swift, Old Crow Medicine Show or whomever – just get in and start digging!
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, ‘I’m Dhirubhai Ambani… may I talk to Nita?’ I said, ‘It’s a wrong number’ and put down the phone. Then he called again… and I said, ‘If you’re Dhirubhai Ambani, then I’m Elizabeth Taylor.’
I’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift for years – ever since I heard her song ‘Love Story.’ I’m also a really big fan of Selena Gomez – I really started listening to her a lot in the months before and during my court martial in 2013.
I have always liked Taylor Swift – there is just something about her that is very genuine and sweet. She also has naturally curly hair like me, so that’s cool.
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it ‘Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,’ after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
I wouldn’t necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?
If you can beat Phil Taylor in the longer format you can beat anyone.
I don’t want to worry about someone calling me and going, ‘You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.’ When there’s that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it’s hard to take creative risks.
For me, it’s actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It’s so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I’m not really there yet.
Considering my specialization in architecture, I’m not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s ‘Batman: Death by Design.’
When you open up ‘Instagram,’ you need to know that you’re seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry.
I can’t think of any punk who’s put on an acoustic and hasn’t just tried to sound like James Taylor.
‘World Is Our Playground’ is a big room banger that makes you wanna check into a hostel and call Mike Taylor.
There was a storyline this year where Taylor lied to Brooke. It was supposed to be set up in a way that I was so outraged by her that I let it stay. I thought that was human, which was great.
We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer.
I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley’s, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift – those people can really pen great stuff.
You look at Taylor Swift, and every ‘i’ is dotted, every story is finished.
My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am… okay, a lot.
I associate Taylor Swift with some pretty kinky stuff.
I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by – obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But also, there were a lot of influences from my dad, like singer-songwriters of the ’70s like Carole King and James Taylor.
I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
