Taylor Swift

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.

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

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

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

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

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

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.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

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 always have to be writing.

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.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

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

I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

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.

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.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

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.

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 feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

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

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

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

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.