Quotes from Taylor Swift

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

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.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

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!

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! 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. And wonderful.

The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

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.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

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 have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone, but the truth is you just never thought you'd ever lose it.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

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