“Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.”

“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.”

“There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.”

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

“People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.”

“There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.”

“Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.”

“Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.”

“The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.”

“A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.”

“Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”

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

“When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.”

“I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.”