Taylor Swift Quotes

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours.

I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate.

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

But I miss screamin' and fightin' And kissin' in the rain And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name You're so in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you.

I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

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

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

(Talks about Miley Cyrus 'I always thought I'd be really fun to sing a song with Miley.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.

That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.

Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything.

I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.

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.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday.

In the middle of the night When I'm in this dream It's like a million little stars Spelling out your name

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

I could make the bad guys good for a weekend.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

Wondering why we bother with love, if it never lasts.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.