Taylor Swift

“It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.”

“I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.”

“People don't usually compliment your character.”

“I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..”

“My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”

“I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

“I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.”

“I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.”

“I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.”

“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.”

“I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.”

“On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.”

“I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'”

“I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.”

“Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.”

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

“I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.”

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

“I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.”