Taylor Swift Quotes

I like to write about relationships. I like it when my friends come over and we crowd around the piano and sing Journey songs at the top of our lungs... And I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

Ryan Seacrest: Trouble, trouble trouble. So why do girls go for the bad guys, what is it Taylor Swift? Why? Taylor Swift: Because maybe we could change them! Everybody wants to like tame a lion.

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.

I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.

You can stay the same person you've always been even if everything around you changes.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be your boyfriend. You know, they don't wanna sign you to an actual record deal or put an album out on you. They wanna watch your progress for a year.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

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.

when you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I'm not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18.

Always consider giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game... And if it's a game, then you need to win.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.

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.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

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

There’s a general rule that I always go by, and it’s that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it’s because they’re shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away - if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.

I've been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down.

(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache,and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo.

I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love... There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful.

I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

Once you think about it, aren't the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people's opinions having more fun than those judging them?

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.