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" The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now. "

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" I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table. "

Taylor Swift

Perspective

You

Win

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

" I love being a part of the country-music community. "

" Love is the one wild card. "

" For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs. "

" When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control. "

Taylor Swift

Future

Management

" 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. "

" Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it. "

" I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails. "

" When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. "

" The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful. "

" It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.' "

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

" I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know. "

" I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. "

" 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 can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily. "

" I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose. "

" I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt. "

Taylor Swift

Think

Control

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

" I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out. "

" In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better. "

" I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. "

" The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call! "

Taylor Swift

Phone

Phone Call

" 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. "

" My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate. "

" I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded. "

Taylor Swift

Older

Think

" 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. "

" I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me. "

" Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of. "