Top 939 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Swift - Page 3

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 think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

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

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 not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

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

All of my songs are autobiographical.

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.

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

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

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

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

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.

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.

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 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.'

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.

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

I always have to be writing.

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.

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

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

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

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

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

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

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 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.

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

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.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

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

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

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.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.