Hang on. It gets easier, and then it gets okay, and then it feels like freedom.

Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: “It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That’s always going to...

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to...

These days, I’ve been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: “Things I can change,” and “Things I can’t.” It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I...

I’ve always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place 🙂

If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it...

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Daily Reminders1) Never compare myself to other people. It is comparing my behind the scenes to their highlight reel.2) Stay here, now. I will not think to far forward or back.3) It’s okay to not...

You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says...

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

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

We’re in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. When we landed at the airport in Boise, from Portland, Oregon this lady from our plane came up...

And I’m dying to know, is it killing you like it’s killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.

That I always had space to run and that I had the opportunity to play with my imagination. I also loved that my mum drew and painted with me. I always remember that my parents...

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again....

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be...

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that’s taking something...

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you’ve had a bunch of bad days and there’s different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with...

Don’t ever regret being honest. Period.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past, I want it to be in the future.

The tiniest thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, and can change who you are.

A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin’ at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when...

There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

If they don`t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more

The only one who’s got enough of me to break my heart.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people...

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because...

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.

Being FEARLESS isn’t being 100% Not FEARFUL, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway…

I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

I’ve found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you’re supposed to be.

Wasn’t it beautiful when you believed in everything?

Nothing safe is worth the drive.

But I miss screamin’ and fightin’ and kissin’ in the rain and it’s 2 a.m. and I’m cursin’ your name. You’re so in love the you act insane, and that’s the way I loved you.

I hope you know that you’ve given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don’t define you....

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again….even though every time you’ve tried before you’ve lost.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel...

The blame is on me…I knew you were trouble when you walked in..

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of...

I’ll bet she’s beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she’s got everything that I have to live without… He’s the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who’s got enough of...