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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
- Taylor Swift
#Being
#Great
#Love
#People
#Without
If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
- Taylor Swift
#Career
#Cool
#Great
#Happens
#Someone
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
- Taylor Swift
#Bad
#Find
#Me
#Secret
#Tease
I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
- Taylor Swift
#Matter
#Own
#People
#Privacy
#Want
I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.
- Taylor Swift
#Change
#Great
#Me
#Music
#Way
You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
- Taylor Swift
#Music
#People
#Try
#Whatever
#Will
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Bad
#Good Things
#Good
#Way
#Yourself
I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
- Taylor Swift
#Me
#People
#Person
#Start
#Thinking
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
- Taylor Swift
#Life
#My Own
#Own
#See
#Sometimes
One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
- Taylor Swift
#Big
#People
#Same
#Saying
#Sound
When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
- Taylor Swift
#Cool
#Dress
#Me
#Nobody
#See
I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.
- Taylor Swift
#About
#Know
#Love
#Much
#Turns
There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
- Taylor Swift
#Album
#Like
#People
#Pressure
#World
I get nervous for everything - literally everything.
- Taylor Swift
#Everything
#Get
#Literally
#Nervous
When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
- Taylor Swift
#Down
#Get
#Hard
#Me
#Something
Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.
- Taylor Swift
#Every
#Produced
#Proud
#Regrets
#Song
I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
- Taylor Swift
#Life
#My Life
#Shy
#Walk
#Walking
I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
- Taylor Swift
#Energy
#Hair
#Know
#Time
#Way
I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
- Taylor Swift
#Day
#Feel
#Me
#Need
#Week
Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
- Taylor Swift
#Days
#Feel
#Me
#Mess
#Waiting
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
- Taylor Swift
#Always
#Craft
#Go
#Structure
#Way
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
- Taylor Swift
#Emotions
#Feel
#I Feel Like
#Lost
#Love
I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
- Taylor Swift
#Advice
#Dating
#Hot
#Never
#Relationship
Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
- Taylor Swift
#Country
#Family
#Group
#People
#Radio
I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
- Taylor Swift
#Always
#Hang
#Me
#Night
#People
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Know
#Life
#People
#Stage
#Stand
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Funny
#Hair
#Look
#Remember
#Words
I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
- Taylor Swift
#Cool
#Feel
#Nice
#School
#Smile
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Boy
#Leave
#Me
#People
#Will
Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.
- Taylor Swift
#Favorite People
#Favorite
#Katie
#People
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
- Taylor Swift
#Everything
#Far
#Life
#Love Is
#Love
When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
- Taylor Swift
#Family
#Feel
#Me
#Opening
#Treat
When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
- Taylor Swift
#Away
#Go
#Grapes
#Mom
#Younger
I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
- Taylor Swift
#Been
#Kid
#Kitchen
#Little
#Mom
My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.
- Taylor Swift
#Advice
#Always
#Comfort
#Home
#Style
I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
- Taylor Swift
#Being
#Human Being
#Human
#Situation
I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
- Taylor Swift
#Advice
#Dating
#Hot
#Never
#Relationship
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
- Taylor Swift
#Night
#People
#Process
#Singing
#Song
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
- Taylor Swift
#Emotions
#Love
#Me
#Music
#Time
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Car
#Me
#Music
#Radio
#Song
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
- Taylor Swift
#I Am
#Me
#Personality
#Shy
#Wise
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
- Taylor Swift
#Being
#Happy
#Like
#Stop
#Think
No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.
- Taylor Swift
#Believe
#Love
#Matter
#Throws
#You
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Curiosity
#Enough
#Old
#See
#Understand
I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
- Taylor Swift
#Awesome
#Fan
#Forever
#He
#Work
One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.
- Taylor Swift
#Enough
#Goals
#Music
#Person
#Want
So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
- Taylor Swift
#Country
#Life
#Me
#Music
#My Life
I love Wiz Khalifa.
- Taylor Swift
#I Love
#Love
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
- Taylor Swift
#Anything
#Behind
#People
#Play
#Up
I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
- Taylor Swift
#Decisions
#Going
#Good
#Gut
#Independent
I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
- Taylor Swift
#Like
#Saying
#Sick
#Why
#Would
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
- Taylor Swift
#Get
#Person
#Study
#Test
#Type
My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.
- Taylor Swift
#Back
#Fans
#Feel
#Real
#Time
It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
- Taylor Swift
#About
#Life
#My Own
#Own
#Pretty
I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
- Taylor Swift
#Collaboration
#Fun
#Hook
#Like
#Song
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Going
#Know
#Live
#Seeing
#Show
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Business
#Choice
#Important
#Life
#Music
I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
- Taylor Swift
#Girl
#Just
#Me
#Something
#Want
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
- Taylor Swift
#Feel
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#Process
I always have to be writing.
- Taylor Swift
#Always
#Writing
Love is the one wild card.
- Taylor Swift
#Card
#Love Is
#Love
#Wild
For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
- Taylor Swift
#Comfortable
#Life
#Reason
#Some
#Talking
And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
- Taylor Swift
#Being
#Fine
#Me
#Somebody
#Wants
I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
- Taylor Swift
#Because
#Duet
#Like
#Loved
#Would
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Look
#Me
#Singing
#Song
#Words
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
- Taylor Swift
#Fall
#Great
#Love
#Me
#Music
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Funny
#Hair
#Like
#Now
#Remember
When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
- Taylor Swift
#About
#Old
#Opinions
#Said
#Years
For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
- Taylor Swift
#End
#Look
#Me
#Person
#Picture
Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
- Taylor Swift
#Good Idea
#Good
#People
#Song
#Writing
I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'
- Taylor Swift
#Go
#Love
#Me
#Meet
#People
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Club
#Mom
#Never
#Night
#Values
I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
- Taylor Swift
#Approach
#Hard
#Know
#Love
#Work
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
- Taylor Swift
#Fans
#Look
#Music
#Possible
#See
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
- Taylor Swift
#Love
#Me
#Parents
#Religion
#Skin
You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
- Taylor Swift
#About
#Country
#Energy
#Like
#Men
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
- Taylor Swift
#Me
#Music
#Process
#Song
#Thinking
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
- Taylor Swift
#Everything
#Long
#Me
#People
#Tired
Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don't get me.
- Taylor Swift
#Details
#I Am
#Me
#Thoughts
#Trust
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Better
#Great
#Love
#Song
#Thinking
I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
- Taylor Swift
#Change
#Never
#Place
#Three
#Time
I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
- Taylor Swift
#Great
#Mature
#Mind
#People
#Way
When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
- Taylor Swift
#Broadway
#Dream
#Growing Up
#Growing
#Up
I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
- Taylor Swift
#Bitter
#Get
#Grow
#Think
#Up
It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
- Taylor Swift
#Also
#Happy
#Possible
#Romantic
#Woman
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
- Taylor Swift
#Believe
#I Believe
#Love
#Something
#Who
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
- Taylor Swift
#Future
#Goals
#Great
#Life
#Never
I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
- Taylor Swift
#Hug
#Lines
#Love
#People
#Still
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Generation
#Next
#Radio
#Truth
#Words
I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
- Taylor Swift
#Chapter
#End
#Poetry
#Simple
#Work
I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
- Taylor Swift
#Choices
#Fans
#Grow
#Me
#Process
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
- Taylor Swift
#Life
#Love Is
#Love
#My Life
#Rules
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
- Taylor Swift
#Day
#Hotel
#Living
#Mom
#Radio
#Three
I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
- Taylor Swift
#Always
#Build
#Love
#Me
#People
When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
- Taylor Swift
#Falling
#Feel
#Happy
#Love
#Song
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
- Taylor Swift
#Comfort
#Look
#Quality
#See
#Style
I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
- Taylor Swift
#Fall
#Love
#Me
#Speed
#Think
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
- Taylor Swift
#Music
#My Own
#Own
#Record
#Situation
As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.
- Taylor Swift
#Grow
#Lessons
#Love
#Treat
#Up
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.
- Taylor Swift
#Day
#Every Day
#I Can
#Try
#World
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