Quotes By Taylor Swift

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.'

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

I definitely think that with music my favorite thing about Nashville is that it's a music hub that accepts and allows all genres to be present, and I think there's been a kind of fusing of genres lately that for me makes me really happy and excited.

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

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.

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22.

Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it's my home, it's Music City. It's like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody's really friendly.

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.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

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.

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.