Quotes by Taylor Swift

"There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there."

"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."

"A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it."

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

"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."

"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."

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."

"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."

"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."

"I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway."

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

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

"My imagination is a twisted place."

"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."

"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."

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

"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."

"I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm."

"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."

"I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing."

"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."

"We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."

"I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons."

"It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy."

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

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

"I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me."

"I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that."

"I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging."

"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."