Top 212 Taylor Swift Quotes

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.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

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.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

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 try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

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

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. 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.

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

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’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

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

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

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.

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 don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

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

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

I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

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

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

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.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

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

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

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.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

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.

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

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

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

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

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

But, I’ve always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

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.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

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.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.’

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.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

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 often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

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.

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

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

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.

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.

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

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

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

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‘I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.’

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.

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

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.

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.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

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.

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

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

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

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

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.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

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.’

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.

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 have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

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.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

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

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.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

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

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.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

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 leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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.

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.

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’m sick of the tabloids’ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

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.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

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.

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

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

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 don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‘Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.’

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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.

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.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

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

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

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

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.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I’m the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

‘The Story of Us’ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‘Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.’ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

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 go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

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

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

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

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.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‘Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.’

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.

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

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

When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‘Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.’ I’m thinking, ‘That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.’

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.

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.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

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

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.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

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

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

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

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.

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

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’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.

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.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

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.

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