Quotes from Taylor Swift

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

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

The world doesn't owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you're seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.