"Give me something that'll haunt me when..." - Quote by Taylor Swift

“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 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.”

“(Talking about her grandmother Marjorie Finlay)I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.”

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

“I love everything about hockey.”

“The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.”

“She was lost in her longing to understand.”

“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.”

“Lovers have heartachesThat can't be cured by drugsOr sleep,Or games,But only by seeing their beloved.”