Taylor Swift

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

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

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

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'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

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.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.

Well, you stood there with me in the doorway, my hands shake, I'm not usually this way. But you pull me in and I'm a little more brave. It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it's fearless.

Don't find love, let it find you. It's called falling in love because you don't force yourself to fall, you just do.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

You meet someone and it’s so much more than meeting them. It’s so much bigger and it’s like you’re enchanted by them.

Every girl on the planet has insecurities. It helps me to know that some of the most beautiful people in the world wake up some days and don't think they're pretty. As sad as that is, it's good to know that a problem you think is your own is actually something every girl faces. Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.