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" I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up. "

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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. "

Taylor Swift

Think

Year

You

" I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown. "

" My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. "

" I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood. "

" The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me. "

" I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little. "

" Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up. "

" I don't really know that much about love, it turns out. "

" Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday. "

" There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. "

" All of my songs are autobiographical. "

Taylor Swift

Autobiographical

Songs

" I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point? "

Taylor Swift

Want

Why

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

" 'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up. "

" 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

Out

Time

" 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. "

" But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under. "

" When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.' "

" Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party. "

" I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. "

" I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. "

" I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go. "

" When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about. "

" I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night. "

" 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. "

" I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that. "

Taylor Swift

Road

Anything

" You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that. "

" 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. "

Taylor Swift

Trying

You

" There are no rules when it comes to love. "

" Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me. "