100+ Taylor Swift Quotes & Lyrics: Love, Heartbreak, and Self-Acceptance

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If you’re lucky enough to be different, don’t ever change.

Fearless is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost.

You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.

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.

If you’re lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

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.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Good memories can leave even more of a scar on your heart than bad times.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson.

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

People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

I think loving someone despite what people think is fearless.

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

Fearless has the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them.

The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color.

When you feel like you’re the only person in the world feeling this way, you’re not.

I’m the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

In the real world, if you have something that makes you different. You’re lucky.

The way you walk, the way you talk, the way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.

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.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

You’re an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry.

I took a chance, I took a shot. And you may think I’m bulletproof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground, I see who you are.

Don’t worry about your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.

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

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.

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 love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, and spruce.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Just be yourself. There is no one better.

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.

I’m thankful that when I go to bed at night, I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

I think that you can love people without it being great love.

Your feelings are so important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Spending a lot of time alone gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

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.

You can walk away and say “We don’t need this.” but something in your eyes says “We can beat this.”

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it’s all about focusing on the good things.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

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.

In life, you learn lessons. Sometimes you learn them the hard way and sometime you learn them too late.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m a girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

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.

There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after.

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 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 the day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

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 am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I want to make the most of this cultural relevance or success or whatever you want to call it because it’s not going to last.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

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

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.

The only words you’ll regret more than the ones you left unsaid, are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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 my time.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

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’m seriously not going to complain about how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

In school, if you’re different that’s uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am…because…you know…I don’t really want to change it.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

When the lights go on there is this overwhelming joy that comes over me. And when I hear people scream…well that’s my favorite sound in the world. That can motivate me to do anything.

If I could go back I wouldn’t change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn’t have ever tried to do anything different. I would have never become happy.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

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.

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.

Don’t make High School everything. Because if high school is everything, you’ve got a long life to live. And…I like to think that the best years of my life are still ahead of me.

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.