Quotes by Taylor Swift
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You have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.

Giving up doesn't always mean your weak . Sometimes you're just strong enough to let go.

Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

Loving him was red.

There's a general rule that I always go by, and it's that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it's because they're shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away -- if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight
swims and your blazing self-respect.

This is life before you know who you are going to be.

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

Life makes love look hard.

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

Just being a human being, I've realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could've just said no.

Bring on all the pretenders!

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

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

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer.

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :).

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

Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don't.

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.

I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.

She thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things.

I think there's something so attractive about mystery. There's something so attractive about the chase. And the bad guy ... bad boys know how to keep the chase going throughout an entire relationship because you never know if you completely have them or not. That's why they're so hard to get over.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

Being fearless isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

I think loving someone, despite what people think, is fearless.

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is fearless.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

I think that it's fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he's in love with someone else.

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

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.

I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground.

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't want to. It's not our job to change people. That's beyond our control. But what you can control is how you respond to it.

I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine.

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.

Winter = baking season. It's on.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

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

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

There's nothing like a mad woman.

My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.

I suffer from girl-next-door-itis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

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.

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

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

I'm typically single. I'm the girl who -- I call it girl-next-door-itis -- the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

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.

I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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

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 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.'

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.

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

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic 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 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.

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.

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.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

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 a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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.'

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

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

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

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

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

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.

My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.

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'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.