Quotes from Taylor Swift

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.

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

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine.

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

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.

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

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

The haters just got to hate so just shake it of.

Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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

When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.