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" It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. "
Taylor Swift
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" I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories. "
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" I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8. "
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" Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works. "
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" I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. "
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" I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage. "
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" I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out. "
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" I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens. "
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" My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from. "
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" I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day. "
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" Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted. "
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" I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. "
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" I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life. "
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Music
" I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it. "
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" I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist. "
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" All you need to do to be my friend is like me. "
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" I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. "
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" I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. "
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" I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. "
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" As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger. "
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" People don't usually compliment your character. "
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" One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything. "
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" I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter. "
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" I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard. "
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