Zitat des Tages von Taylor Swift:
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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.
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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.
I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.
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.
So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
'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!
I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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.
I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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.
If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
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.
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.