QUOTES - Straight from Taylor's mouth

♦"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. I don't care. I'm just a senior in high school who has a better job. Who am I to think I'm better than talking to people?"

♦"What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become."

♦"You only get so many firsts, everyone is a blessing."

♦"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

♦"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

♦"Clubs are just not where I want to be photographed. For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values. I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.”

♦"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."

♦"Being fearless isn't being 100% not fearful, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...."

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

♦"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."

♦”If I want to storm out of the house and go to a club and get drunk, I can do that. I just really would rather not.

♦I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl.