Quotes from Chas Newkey-Burden

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

Taylor feels the Swifties are of a different and higher calibre. 'I just feel so proud that my fans are always nice to other fans,' she told the Digital Spy website. 'They don't say hateful things. They don't say they're going to set people on fire or anything. They're not sending death threats to other people.' The

blossom during and beyond her childhood. 'We were more sisters than friends,' Maack told the Reading Eagle. 'Taylor's family was my family.' Yet this bond was not enough to paper over the cracks of hurt that Taylor felt when kids bullied her. Lots of kids found her 'annoying' and 'uncool'. Among her offences to coolness was the fact that she was not

Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker. Her parents even chose her Christian name with a business path in mind. Her mother, Andrea, selected a gender-neutral name for her baby girl so that when she grew up and applied for jobs in the male-dominated finance industry no one would know if she were male or female. It

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there's no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Taylor first lived on the 11-acre Christmas-tree

Best Day', which touchingly evokes a childhood full of wonder, she sings of her 'excellent' father whose 'strength is making me stronger'. That excellent father is Scott Kingsley Swift, who studied business

she was not 'cool' enough to be in such a position – a legacy of her school experiences, perhaps.

Taylor's tendency to vent

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so." Jeff Galloway, running coach

Taylor Swift was never meant to be a singer-songwriter; she was supposed to become a stockbroker.