Taylor Swift is known for her catchy songs. But there’s more to her than just music. She’s got a lot to say. And sometimes, it’s pretty shocking. In this article, we’ll look at some of the most surprising Taylor Swift quotes.
You might think you know Taylor. But these words might change your mind. She’s not afraid to speak up.
She’s got strong opinions and doesn’t hold back. Some of these quotes are funny. Others are serious. Get ready to see Taylor Swift in a new light. These aren’t just song lyrics. They’re real thoughts from a real person.
So, let’s dive in. You might be surprised by what you read. Taylor’s words can be as powerful as her music.
121 Taylor Swift Quotes
- “People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
- “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
- “To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
- “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
- “I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that’s it.”
- “I took a chance, I took a shot. And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are.”
- “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
- “Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.”
- “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”
- “I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.”
- “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”
- “It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair.”
- “Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
- “The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now.”
- “There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.”
- “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.”
- “You can write a book on how to ruin someone’s perfect day.”
- “You’re an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry.”
- “You can walk away and say ‘We don’t need this.’ but something in your eyes says ‘We can beat this.'”
- “So don’t you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine.”
- “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”
- “The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.”
- “The only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart.”
- “It’s never been about trying to look well-behaved. It’s just how I am. I guess it’s a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don’t really know any other way. I don’t know if I’d be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I’ve said. That doesn’t mean when I’m older I won’t have a glass of wine. I just don’t think it’s such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.”
- “I’ve wanted one thing for me whole life and I’m not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.”
- “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
- “We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”
- “Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.”
- “I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”
- “Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.”
- “If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.”
- “Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.”
- “I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.”
- “I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.”
- “My imagination is a twisted place.”
- “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.”
- “I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.”
- “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 think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.”
- “I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.”
- “I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It’s my go-to breakfast.”
- “I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.”
- “If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.”
- “Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”
- “There are no rules when it comes to love.”
- “My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.”
- “It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”
- “I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.”
- “I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.”
- “Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.”
- “I’m the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.”
- “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”
- “You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”
- “Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.”
- “I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.”
- “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.”
- “My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”
- “All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”
- “At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.”
- “When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”
- “You can’t be in love with a Google search.”
- “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.”
- “I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.”
- “Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”
- “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.”
- “As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.”
- “I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”
- “I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.”
- “I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.”
- “I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.”
- “Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.”
- “I don’t mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven’t really thought about it since then. I don’t go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I’m in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don’t really think about it very much.”
- “When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.”
- “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.”
- “When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.”
- “I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”
- “I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.”
- “I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.”
- “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.”
- “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 have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.”
- “I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”
- “I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.”
- “I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”
- “Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.”
- “Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.”
- “When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.”
- “I think who you are in school really sticks with you. 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.'”
- “Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.”
- “I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.”
- “When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.”
- “If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.”
- “It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.”
- “I think that you can love people without it being the great love.”
- “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.”
- “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 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.”
- “I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”
- “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.”
- “I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.”
- “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.”
- “When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‘Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'”
- 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 remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.'”
- “There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.”
- “Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.”
- “My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.”
- “I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.”
- “I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.”
- “I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them!”
- “You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.”
Final Thoughts
Taylor Swift’s words pack a punch. They show us a side of her we don’t often see in the media.
These quotes reveal her true thoughts and feelings. They’re not just lyrics from her songs. They’re real talk from a real person.
Some might surprise you. Others might make you think. That’s the power of honesty.
Swift isn’t afraid to speak her mind. She stands up for what she believes in. And she’s not sorry about it. These quotes prove that there’s more to Taylor than catchy tunes. She’s smart, funny, and sometimes a bit sassy.
So next time you hear a Taylor Swift song, remember these words. They show the person behind the pop star. And that person is pretty darn interesting.
Swift’s quotes remind us that celebrities are human too. They have good days and bad days, just like us. Maybe that’s why so many people connect with her music.