Taylor Swift
I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.Collection: Alone
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Jealousy
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.Collection: Love
No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.Collection: Space
I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.Collection: Wedding
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.Collection: Dating
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.Collection: Time
I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.Collection: Trust
I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Time
If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.Collection: Dating
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.Collection: Alone
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.Collection: Space
I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.Collection: Music
I've always strived to be successful, not famous.Collection: Famous
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.Collection: Music
I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.Collection: Attitude
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.Collection: Trust
I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.Collection: Fear
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.Collection: Experience
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: Dating
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.Collection: Family
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.Collection: Time
I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Trust
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.Collection: Relationship
There are no rules when it comes to love.Collection: Love
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.Collection: Love
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.Collection: Good
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.'Collection: Smile
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.Collection: Relationship
If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.Collection: Relationship
It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Music
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.Collection: Respect
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.Collection: Relationship
For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.Collection: Mom
I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Amazing
We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.Collection: Respect