Taylor Swift
My imagination is a twisted place.Collection: Imagination
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!Collection: Music
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Future
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.Collection: Relationship
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.Collection: Fear
It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.Collection: Romantic
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.Collection: Mom
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.'Collection: Cool
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.Collection: Age
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.Collection: Experience
Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.Collection: Car
I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.Collection: Faith
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.Collection: Life
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.Collection: Time
I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.Collection: Mom
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.Collection: Relationship
I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.Collection: Love
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.Collection: Friendship
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.Collection: Relationship
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.'Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Good
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.Collection: Time
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Nature
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.Collection: Music
The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.Collection: Business
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.Collection: Mom
My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.Collection: Dad
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.Collection: Poetry
Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.Collection: Good
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.Collection: Change
I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.Collection: Fear
Love is the one wild card.Collection: Love
I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.Collection: Art
Faith Hill is a big role model.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Cool
It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.Collection: Trust
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.Collection: Happiness
I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.Collection: Love
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.Collection: Music
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.Collection: Good
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.Collection: Mom
I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.Collection: Funny
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.
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.
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.