Quotes By Taylor Swift

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

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.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

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

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

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

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Love is the one wild card.

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

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

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!