Taylor Swift

People are people and sometimes we change our minds.

I don't wanna dance if I'm not dancing with you.

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I haven't had that one great love which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

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.

If you're yelling, you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

I hope you remember that today is never too late to be brand-new.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

For some reason I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

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

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you, and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

Music is my shining light my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

For me great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

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.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

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

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1, and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

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.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

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.

All of my songs are autobiographical.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

For me when I picture the person I want to end up with I don't think about what their career is or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record but not promising that they'll put an album out.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um it's kinda interesting coming back and y'know seeing the lockers with all the signs the handmade signs so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

I am an over-achiever and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

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!

Your feelings so are important to write down to capture and to remember because today you're heartbroken but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

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.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

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

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.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around I'd just write.

And honestly if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck that's fine with me!

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me because I want to meet them! Early on my manager told me 'If you want to sell 500 000 records then go out there and meet 500 000 people.'

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

In a relationship each person should support the other, they should lift each other up.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

But I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

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.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

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

Most of the time songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Love is the one wild card.

If you cry over a guy then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

When I was 8 years old it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65 000 people it can bring you to tears.

I always have to be writing.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

But when I hear a great song I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

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.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

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 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.

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.