I write songs about what I go through. — Taylor Swift

All of my songs are autobiographical. — Taylor Swift

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums. — Taylor Swift

If guys don’t want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things. — Taylor Swift

Lady gagas ‘hair’ is my theme song. — Taylor Swift

If you’re horrible to me, I’m going to write a song about it, and you won’t like it. That’s how I operate. — Taylor Swift

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of. — Taylor Swift

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. — Taylor Swift

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary. — Taylor Swift

The song ‘Innocent’ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me. — Taylor Swift

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write. — Taylor Swift

I’m not afraid to write my feelings in songs. — Taylor Swift

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine. — Taylor Swift

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it. — 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 really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs. — Taylor Swift

The Moment I Knew’ ‘was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever. — Taylor Swift

Just keep doing ‘you’, and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you. — Taylor Swift

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could. — Taylor Swift

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months. — Taylor Swift

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature. — Taylor Swift

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way. — Taylor Swift

Even if something really hurt you, if it made you feel something it was worth it. — Taylor Swift

We almost never speak I don’t feel welcome anymore baby what happened, please tell me? — Taylor Swift

When you feel like you’re the only person in the world feeling this way, you’re not — Taylor Swift

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions. — Taylor Swift

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel ‘oh–oh’. It’s only happened a few times in my life. — Taylor Swift

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life. — Taylor Swift

Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it. — Taylor Swift

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

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’ve learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it. — Taylor Swift

It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes. — Taylor Swift

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore. — Taylor Swift

I’ve always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place 🙂 — Taylor Swift

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. — Taylor Swift

If you ever think you’re the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you’re not. — Taylor Swift

Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don’t think that they’re pretty. — Taylor Swift

I’m just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers. — Taylor Swift

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it. — Taylor Swift

When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can. — Taylor Swift

Maybe you won’t find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will. — Taylor Swift

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. — Taylor Swift

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea. — Taylor Swift

I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore. — Taylor Swift

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial. — Taylor Swift

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief. — Taylor Swift

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people. — Taylor Swift

I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way. — Taylor Swift

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. — Taylor Swift

Happy,free,confused,lonley at the same time. — Taylor Swift

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends. — Taylor Swift

I’ve found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you’re supposed to be. — Taylor Swift

Life is like walking you take one step at a time. — Taylor Swift

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything. — Taylor Swift

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs. — Taylor Swift

I’ve been giving out chances every time and all you do is let me down. — Taylor Swift

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear. — Taylor Swift

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

One of my best friends is dating my other best friend, Lena! — Taylor Swift

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. — Taylor Swift

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that. — Taylor Swift

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend. — Taylor Swift

I’m not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me. — Taylor Swift

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they’re great people. — Taylor Swift

I think that it’s fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. — Taylor Swift

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it. — Taylor Swift

I became a people–watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12. — Taylor Swift

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

I’m a girls’ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet. — Taylor Swift

There is no easy way for me to engage with romance, i’m really busy, so i can’t. and it’s a good thing that i feel really independent and i feel that my friends are all i need. — Taylor Swift

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ ve cheated because they fit perfectly. — Taylor Swift

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered. — Taylor Swift

Love Story’ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them! — Taylor Swift

If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn’t have some of the coolest friends that I’m so glad I’ve gotten to know. — Taylor Swift

I don’t think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play. — Taylor Swift

It’s been occurring to me I’d like to hang out with you, for my whole life.1 — Taylor Swift

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive. — Taylor Swift

The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger. — Taylor Swift

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don’t let mean people bring that down. — Taylor Swift

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

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose. — Taylor Swift

There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team. — Taylor Swift

I am an over–achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life. — Taylor Swift

In life, you learn lessons. And sometimes you learn them the hard way. Sometimes you learn them too late. — Taylor Swift

Your eyes wider than distance, this life is sweeter than fiction. — Taylor Swift

I’ve wanted one thing in my life. I don’t want to be that girl that gets that one thing then complains. — Taylor Swift

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right. — Taylor Swift

If something happens to me, you’re going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life. — Taylor Swift

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options. — Taylor Swift

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life. — Taylor Swift

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world. — Taylor Swift

People haven’t always been there for me but music always has. — Taylor Swift

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

I’m so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music. — Taylor Swift

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. — Taylor Swift

But I say to Apple with all due respect, we don’t ask you for free iPhones. Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation. — Taylor Swift

My favorite place in the whole world is Nashville. Because it’s my home, it’s Music City. It’s like, everybody there is so artistic and so creative, and nice! Everybody’s really friendly. — Taylor Swift

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you. — Taylor Swift

The one place where I’m allowed to rebel, and the one place where I’m allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music. — 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

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it. — Taylor Swift

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. — Taylor Swift

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you. — Taylor Swift

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me. — Taylor Swift

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. — Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! — Taylor Swift