Taylor Swift quotes

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

“I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.”

— Taylor Swift

“I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.”

— Taylor Swift

“I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.”

— Taylor Swift

“I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.”

— Taylor Swift

“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

“People don't usually compliment your character.”

— Taylor Swift

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

“As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

“I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.”

— Taylor Swift

“I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.”

— Taylor Swift

“I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

“I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.”

— Taylor Swift

“I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.”

— Taylor Swift

“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

“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

“Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.”

— Taylor Swift

“Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”

— Taylor Swift

“The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.”

— Taylor Swift

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

“A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.”

— Taylor Swift

“All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.”

— Taylor Swift

“And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!”

— Taylor Swift

“At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.”

— Taylor Swift

“But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.”

— Taylor Swift

“Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.”

— Taylor Swift

“I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.”

— Taylor Swift