"The business aspect is one of the..." - Quote by Taylor Swift

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

“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. In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.”

“I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.”

“In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.”

“Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.”

“I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.”

“It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.”

“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”