Taylor Swift
My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
I always have to be writing.
I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.
I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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!
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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.
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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 have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
There's room for role models who make mistakes.
Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
You can't be in love with a Google search.
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!
'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.