Taylor Swift Quotes & Sayings

I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon version of me, you know, this man-eating, jet-setting serial dater who reels them in, but scares them off because she's clingy and needy; then she's all dejected, so she goes into her lair and writes a song as a weapon. I mean, man, that's pretty intense. And I started thinking about what an interesting character that person is. And, if I was that person, what would my life motto be, my mantra? What would I say? I think I'd own it. — Taylor Swift

Being fearless doesn't mean you have no fears. it means you're strong enough to face them — Taylor Swift

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

We almost never speak
I don't feel welcome anymore
baby what happened, please tell me? — Taylor Swift

Got a long list of ex-lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane. But I got a blank space baby, and I'll write your name. — Taylor Swift

So casually cruel in the name of being honest — Taylor Swift

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it — Taylor Swift

I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter. — Taylor Swift

We were built to fall apart and fall back together. — Taylor Swift

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist. — Taylor Swift

Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think. — Taylor Swift

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst. — Taylor Swift

I want someone to say, 'I love you and that's all I really know.' That's the girly girl in me. — Taylor Swift

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change. — Taylor Swift

I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night. — Taylor Swift

Lady gagas "hair" is my theme song. — Taylor Swift

When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual. — Taylor Swift

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while. — Taylor Swift

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise. — Taylor Swift

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No. — Taylor Swift

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.
I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help. — Taylor Swift

If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. — Taylor Swift

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life, so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo shoots. — Taylor Swift

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. — Taylor Swift

You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing. — Taylor Swift

The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them. — Taylor Swift

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. — Taylor Swift

This is the last time I'm asking you this, put my name at the top of your lsit. This is the last time I'm asking you why. You break my heart in the blink of an eye. — Taylor Swift

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I've always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that's why I don't misbehave. — Taylor Swift

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible. — Taylor Swift

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. — Taylor Swift

I don't drink to get drunk. That's just not cute. — Taylor Swift

I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back. — Taylor Swift

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream. — Taylor Swift

At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I'll let you decide which is the more important revelation. — Taylor Swift

Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go. — Taylor Swift

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. — Taylor Swift

We don't just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it's weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don't understand you - you have to have more fun than they do. — Taylor Swift

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane. — Taylor Swift

I think that being good to people - you'll never regret that. Maybe you'll get walked all over, maybe you'll get tricked, maybe you'll get fooled, but I think it's so much better to be kind to people and to trust people rather then to have your guard up and say mean things to people. You never want to be the reason that someone else feels bad. — Taylor Swift

If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy. — Taylor Swift

So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while. — Taylor Swift

And for me, I guess the person who I tell everything that I'm going through is you. The fans. — Taylor Swift

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend. — Taylor Swift

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift

Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday. — Taylor Swift

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

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out. — Taylor Swift

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. — Taylor Swift

You might think I'm bulletproof, but I'm not. — Taylor Swift

You've got every right to a beautiful life — Taylor Swift

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change. — Taylor Swift

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men. — Taylor Swift

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go — Taylor Swift

These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! 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. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about
more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life. — Taylor Swift

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt. — Taylor Swift

Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything. — Taylor Swift

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened. — Taylor Swift

If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous. — Taylor Swift

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. — Taylor Swift

She lost him, but she found herself, and somehow, that was everything. — Taylor Swift

I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that. — Taylor Swift

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret. — Taylor Swift

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity. — Taylor Swift

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same. — Taylor Swift

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms. — Taylor Swift

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts. — Taylor Swift

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. — Taylor Swift

The battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight. — Taylor Swift

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you. — Taylor Swift

I love Wiz Khalifa. — Taylor Swift

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. — Taylor Swift

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be. — Taylor Swift

Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out — Taylor Swift

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. — Taylor Swift

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. — Taylor Swift

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful. — Taylor Swift

I wish [that when] I was 12 years old I'd been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism - I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means. — Taylor Swift

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you. — Taylor Swift

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here. — Taylor Swift

I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been ... challenging. — Taylor Swift

I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being. — Taylor Swift

I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music. — Taylor Swift

She's like a sister. People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number. — Taylor Swift

Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted. — Taylor Swift

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered. — Taylor Swift

There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time . — Taylor Swift

When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing. — Taylor Swift

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way
listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos ... .Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love. — Taylor Swift

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you. — Taylor Swift

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

Life makes love look hard. — Taylor Swift

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling. — Taylor Swift

My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, 'Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he's cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a 'slut' on the internet?' It's not the same for boys, it just isn't and that's a fact. — Taylor Swift

For Christmas my family bought me a new Scrabble board (the one that swivels!) and cat treats. Am I eighty five? — Taylor Swift

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose. — Taylor Swift

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly. — Taylor Swift

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

Words, how little they mean when they are too late. — Taylor Swift

Katie Couric is one of my favorite people. — Taylor Swift