I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down. Taylor Swift More Quotes by Taylor Swift More Quotes From Taylor Swift But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again. Taylor Swift clickseyerooms You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning. Taylor Swift never-forgetforgetpeople When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my autograph; it's people breaking my heart. That happens to you whether you've sold millions of records or whether you're taking classes at college. You're going to believe people when they say that they love you. I don't leave out details when I write songs about that. I try to make my songs as personal as possible because, ultimately, my music started out as just trying to turn my diary entries into something that was a piece of music. And that has never changed. Taylor Swift painlove-yousong When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing. Taylor Swift growing-upkidsschool I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that. Taylor Swift nastyone-dayrunning being open isn't the same as being weak. Taylor Swift weak I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself. Taylor Swift industrypeople My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl. Taylor Swift dadgirlsweet My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music. Taylor Swift favorites-thingsstoriesworld There’s nothing more amazing than the sound of a screaming crowd. Nothing. Taylor Swift crowdssound Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric. Taylor Swift brokenheartboys 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 songpeoplethinking I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess over who it's about, because they think they have all my relationships mapped out. But there's a reason there are not any overt call-outs in that song. My intent was not to create some gossip-fest. I wanted people to apply it to a situation where they felt betrayed in their own lives. Taylor Swift writingsongthinking so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while. Taylor Swift gardeneyelittles It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it. Taylor Swift feelingssongpeople 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 musicalsimplethinking There are videos where I would go approaching strangers and sing the songs from 'The Lion King. I would have been about four years, and I came running up to people on the beach, strangers that I chose at random and began to sing, and my family never knew where I was, they were always looking for me, trying to imagine who I was harassing this time . Taylor Swift runningsongbeach I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12. Taylor Swift my-friendslostpeople I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that. Taylor Swift guyplaythinking I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless. Taylor Swift writingsongthinking
