Quotes from Taylor Swift

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there.

Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.

Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

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.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that's fearless too.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

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

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.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

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

I like things you can touch and things you can keep, because every bit of communication we have is ephemeral in nature. You can just delete an e-mail and it's like it was never there.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

I've questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.