Quotes by Taylor Swift

A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said I do., and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; well rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And Ill be eighty-seven youll be eighty-nine, Ill still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.

As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons and sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.

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

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and youll have the time of your life.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. All those emotions — spanning from intense love, intense frustration, jealousy, confusion, all of that — in my mind, all those emotions are red. You know, there’s nothing in between. There’s nothing beige about any of those feelings, it all comes back to me, and it’s red.

Sometimes the person youd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

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

Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That’s always going to be my main goal, that’s always what I’m going to strive for, to be a normal human being. It’s interesting because you’re put in really abnormal situations. You have an abnormal-size microscope covering your life and everything you do. You look at the idea of being 22, that’s when you’re supposed to be out there living and being selfish and making mistakes and messing up. If I mess up once, it’s a headline everywhere.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

Being FEARLESS isnt being 100% Not FEARFUL, its being terrified but you jump anyway...

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

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

Were in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. When we landed at the airport in Boise, from Portland, Oregon this lady from our plane came up from behind as we walked down the terminal. She approached me and said Taylor, I just love your song and want to wish you great things in you career. I looked and her and said Well, THANK YOU! and then said who did you talk to?. (and then pointed to my Mom and the Label rep we were traveling with) I was convinced that one of them had talked to the lady on the plane and told her about me and my song. The lady said neither one and then I said Well, how did you know who I was? and the lady said because I listen to radio and I watched your video. This was the first time someone had actually KNOWN who I was and MY NAME. wow. I just walked over and hugged her, and said ....Youre the first person whos ever done that, thankyou. It was an amazing moment to remember, and I always will.

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes Sorry, we only take cash or credit. So theres that.

Maybe you lost someone you never expected you would lose. Maybe you lost yourself. That’s even worse. When you have bad days that just won’t let up, I just hope that you will look in the mirror and remind yourself of what you are and what you are not.You are not your mistakes.You are not damaged goods or money from your failed explorations.You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.You are a product of the lessons that you’ve learned.You are wiser because you went through something terrible.And you are the person who survived a bunch of rainstorms and kept walking. I now believe that pain makes you stronger. And now I believe that walking through a lot of rainstorms gets you clean.

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.