Taylor Swift

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.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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.

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

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

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

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.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

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.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around I'd just write.

And honestly if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck that's fine with me!

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'm like 6'2 when I wear heels so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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

In this business you have to develop a thick skin but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

But I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

When I'm getting to know someone I look for someone who has passions that I respect like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

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.

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

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

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

Love is the one wild card.

If you cry over a guy then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

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

When you walk out onstage in front of 65 000 people it can bring you to tears.

I always have to be writing.

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

But when I hear a great song I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed waiting for autographs and taking pictures of 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.

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.