Taylor Swift Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

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.

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

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

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

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

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

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’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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.

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

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

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 can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

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

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

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.

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

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 in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

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

My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a ‚home base‘ and stick with your comfort style.

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.

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

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 love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It’s my go-to breakfast.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

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.

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.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That’s why I tend not to wear heels.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

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

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

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.

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.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

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

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

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.

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 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.

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. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.