Top 939 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Swift - Page 4

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

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.'

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

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

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

'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 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.

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

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.

'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.

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

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.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

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

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.

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.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

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

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

My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

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

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

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.

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 you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.

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.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

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?

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

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

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

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.

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

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

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.

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.

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

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

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.