Taylor Swift

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.'

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 like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

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

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

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

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.

If they dont like you for being yourself be yourself even more.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

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

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.

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.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that, even the people that I consider flawless then you can start to live with the way you are.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

Fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time youve tried before youve lost.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

People don't usually compliment your character.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

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

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

My imagination is a twisted place.

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.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when youre 16 can mirror the one you have when youre 26. Life repeats itself.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

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

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

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

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.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

You are the best thing thats ever been mine.

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

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

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.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

Youre lucky enough to be different never change.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

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

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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

I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

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.

If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Theres glitter on the floor after the party.

There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

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

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

When you are missing someone time seems to move slower and when Im falling in love with someone time seems to be moving faster.

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

Love is the one wild card.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.