Top 939 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Swift - Page 6

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 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 look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.

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

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

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

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

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.'

Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

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

I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

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.

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.

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.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

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.

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

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

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'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 feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either

The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.