Quotes from Taylor Swift

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

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.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

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.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.

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!

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

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

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

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

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.