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Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is a popular American singer-songwriter and actress. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music.

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The haters just got to hate so just shake it of.

– Taylor Swift

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I love my fans, I could not be able to do it without you and I would not be here.

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I wanted it to feel like their falling together was inevitable and their falling apart was just as inevitable, they couldn’t stop from colliding, and they couldn’t stop from being dismantled.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago

That song relieved a lot of sort of tension. There were things that I needed to get rid of or at least get out of me or get in front of me or at least have some other relationship than feeling Carole King : Natural Woman internally, either by telling somebody else or by just putting Carole King : Natural Woman out in a form in front of me so that I could say, ` There Carole King : Natural Woman are,' you know, externalizing it somehow. And that part was hard, having the feelings that needed to be expressed in that way. But it was actually a relief, like a laugh or a sigh.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I knew it was extraordinary and exceptional.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

The Beatles ' took a break. The studio that they were using... when they weren't there, I was there. I would sort of scamper in there and put down a few of my little tracks and clear out before they came back.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I was surprised at how much it meant to me to have a success like this. It used to be sort of uncool to be motivated by sales and by chart position and stuff like that.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

My audience responds well to it, and because it wears well, I like' Carolina In My Mind.' I play it almost every time I perform, and I haven't tired of it.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

Taylor Swift. my audience responds well to it, and because it wears well, I like' Carolina In My Mind.' I play it almost every time I perform, and I haven't tired of it.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

I think he is an intelligent public servant, who's focused. He's level-headed. He's a cool hand on the helm. I think he is a deeply compassionate man, i'm fiercely proud of my country for electing this man.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 2 years ago

Thank you so much for the birthday wishes, I love you all so much.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

Everyone loves their mom ; everyone's got an important mom, but for me, she's really the guiding force. Almost every decision I make, I talk to her about it first. So obviously it was a really big deal to ever speak about her illness.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

The symptoms of what a person goes through when they have a brain tumor is nothing like what we've ever been through with her cancer before, so it's just been a really hard time for us as a family.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people, because Katie Couric said to me Katie Couric had heard a quote that Katie Couric loved that said,' There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.'.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

Our teacher at cat school, Sarah, saw pictures and videos of my cats, especially Olivia Benson, and sent them to Rebel [ Wilson ] for inspiration for her cat [ Jennyanydots ].

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

We were learning how to move like cats, we learned a lot of choreography.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

And let me just say that the definition of the toxic male privilege in our industry is people saying,' But he's always been nice to me,' when I'm raising valid concerns about artists and their rights to own their music, and, of course, he's nice to you. If you're in this room, you have something he needs.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

Lately, there's been a new shift that has affected me personally and that I feel is a potentially harmful force in our industry, and as your resident loud person, I feel the need to bring it up, and that is the unregulated world of private equity coming in and buying up our music as if it is real estate, as if it's an app or a shoe line. This just happened to me without my approval, consultation or consent.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

I saw that people love to explain away a woman's success in the music industry, and I saw something in me change due to this realization, this was the decade when I became a mirror for my detractors. Whatever they decided I couldn't do is exactly what I did.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

When this decade began, I was 20 years old, and I had put out my self-titled debut album when I was 16, and then the album that would become my breakthrough album, which was called' Fearless,' and I saw that there was a world of music and experience beyond country music that I was really curious about.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 4 years ago

We have a long way to go, i think that were working off of an antiquated contractual system. Were galloping toward a new industry but not thinking about recalibrating financial structures and compensation rates, taking care of producers and writers.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News 4 years ago

There was an ambition and an aspiration to have an original song in the movie, just very much this understanding of like 'Let's write the best song we can'.

– Taylor Swift

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

Get online, talk about it, let people know how Alex Morgan feel about it because what happened to them is unfair, it's happening everywhere, and they are heroes and icons for standing up.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

The Dixie Chicks were making such interesting music and doing The Dixie Chicks in such an unapologetically feminine, imaginative way, i was very inspired by the album' Fly' and the aesthetics, because it was very clear they had really put a lot into the artwork.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

She basically tried to sabotage an entire arena tour, she tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I'm surprisingly non-confrontational -- you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It's awkward, and I don't like it.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a Game of Thrones filter.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

' King of My Heart' was influenced by Khal Drogo and Daenerys, my Heart ''s even got this post-hook of drums — I wanted Khal Drogo and Daenerys to sound like Dothraki drums.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

So much of my imagination was spent on Game of Thrones, at the time, I was making' Reputation' and I didn't talk about it in interviews, so I didn't reveal that a lot of the songs were influenced by the show.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

This is from Alex Goldschmidt, but sung by me.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country, i believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 6 years ago

I guess I just think about all the people that weren't believed and the people who haven't been believed, and the people who are afraid to speak up because they think they won't be believed, i just wanted to say I'm sorry to anyone who ever wasn't believed, because I don't know what turn my life would have taken if somebody didn't believe me when I said something had happened to me.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 6 years ago

A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media and it caught on. And then a lot of people called me a lot of names on social media. And I went through some really low times for a while because of it, i went through sometimes when I didn’t know if I was gonna get to do this anymore.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

My advice is that you do not blame yourself and do not accept the blame others will try to place on you, you should not be blamed for waiting 15 minutes, 15 days or 15 years to report sexual assault or harassment, or for the outcome of what happens to a person after or she makes the choice to sexually harass or assault you.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

When I testified, I had already been in court all week and had to watch this man’s attorney bully, badger and harass my team including my mother over insane details and ridiculous minutiae, accusing them, and me, of lying, i was angry. In that moment, I decided to forgo any courtroom formalities and just answer the questions the way it happened. This man hadn’t considered any formalities when we assaulted me, and his lawyer didn’t hold back on my mom – why should I be polite? I’m told it was most amount of times the word 'ass' has ever been said in Colorado Federal Court.

– Taylor Swift

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, ‘ Look, he called me and told me about the line, ’.

– Taylor Swift

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Keeping up with the Kardashians.

– Taylor Swift

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We're starting from the beginning from my first memory and hopefully we can go all the way up to the Super Bowl.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 8 years ago

But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'll know it is you and the people who love you who put you there.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 8 years ago

One individual artist is not going to change the inevitability of streaming.

– Taylor Swift

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

He's so cool, getting that phone call, like 'Hey, would you like to go and play with the Rolling Stones?' Yes. That's an immediate yes. That is a bold, underline, exclamation point, yes.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 9 years ago

We believe fans should be able to listen to music wherever and whenever they want. i can say is that music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 9 years ago

Anytime they'd see an illegal post of it, they'd comment, 'Why are you doing this? Why don't you respect the value of art?' 'Don't do this. We don't believe in this. This is illegal. This isn't fair. This isn't right.' And it was wild seeing that happen.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 9 years ago

I really like my life right now, i have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that.

– Taylor Swift

Found on CNN 9 years ago

There is no easy way for me to engage with romance, i'm really busy, so I can't. And it's a good thing that I feel really independent and I feel that my friends are all I need.

– Taylor Swift