Taylor Swift Quotations | Page 7

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

You start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you...don't try to hide it. I don't try to blend in anymore, it's all about standing out.

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.

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

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

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.

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

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

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

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

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.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demo-graphic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

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.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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

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

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

People don't usually compliment your character.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

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 don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

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

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.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

Love is the one wild card.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

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

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.

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.

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.

In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

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

Fans are my favourite thing in the world

Fearless is knowing that someday things will change.

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

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

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

Fans are my favorite thing in the world.

Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't.

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

Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.

If you can figure out how you're feeling, then maybe you have a chance of getting over it.

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

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.

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 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.

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.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

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.

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.

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.

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!

'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.

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.

There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

Even if something really hurt you, if it made you feel something it was worth it.

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives.

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.

Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

Time will break all of the old habits and create new ones for you, and in the process, you will try to handle this immense pain with dignity (because you're that kind of girl). You actually will have to move on and you actually will be fine and that's when he may actually miss how incredible and special you are.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

I'm perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don't act like you've been hit by the plague when you're alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it's not a bad day.

I stay out too late Got nothing in my brain

You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.

It's a love story, baby, just say, Yes.

I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

You better lose yourself in the music

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

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

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

There's a kind of bad that gets so overpowering you can't even talk about it.

There’s something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly that you jump in headfirst without looking.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.

I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

Be the fearless girl that everyone knows would dare to do anything.

I never expected anything to be given to me.

Appreciate what you have while you have it.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.