Quotes By Taylor Swift

My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

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.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

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.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

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.

There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment - one simple, simple feeling - and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

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.

I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines - little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I would love to be a parent, but I want that time to come when I've experienced so much of the world. My life will be devoted to making that child's life as wonderful, beautiful, magical and perfect as it can possibly be. I want to wait until there is no ounce of me left that has anything self-centered to experience.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you'll never forget someone if you're trying to forget them.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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.

I'd rather be at home and eat ice cream than go out and get wasted.