I love Wiz Khalifa.
— Taylor Swift
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
I've seen my friends take someone back after they've cheated because they fit perfectly.
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
There's room for role models who make mistakes.
I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it.
I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.
My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you're supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
