“This is the first one I started when I was 13.

And it says, my life, my career, my dream, my

reality.”

“You know my entire moral quote as a kid and now is a need to be thought of as good."

“Do the right thing, do the good thing. And obviously I'm not a perfect person by any stretch but
overall, the main thing that I always try to be was, like a good girl.”

“I've been trained to be happy when you get a lot of praise. I had that praise of 'Taylor, you're
doing a good job on your work. You're doing a good job at being a songwriter. You're doing a
good job at being a musician.' Like those pats on the head, were all I lived for.”

“I was so fulfilled by the approval that—that was it. I became the person who everyone wanted
me to be.”

“Everybody in music has their own sort of news specialty thing that they do that sets them apart
from everybody else. And my storytelling is what it is for me and I know that without me writing
my own songs, I wouldn't be here.”

“There isn't a moment to my fanbase where we feel like we grew up together. I'll be going
through something, write the album about it and later it will come out and sometimes it just
coincides with what they're going through. Kind of like reading my own diary.”

“I was in country music and I was doing like a very skeptical type of live show. And I remember
thinking this feels like a dream.”

“My fans, you have changed my life.”

“But when you're living for the approval of strangers, and that is where you derive, all of your joy
and fulfillment wouldn't bad thing can cause everything to crumble.”

“There was an echoing in there. At that time I didn't know that they were booing him doing that. I
thought that they were booing me. For someone who's built their whole belief system on getting
people to clap for you? The whole crowd booing is a pretty formative experience.”

“That was like sort of a catalyst for a lot of psychological paths that I went down. And not all of
them worked beneficial. It was all fueled by not feeling like I belonged there. I'm only here
because I work hard. That work ethic, like, thank God I have that work ethic. Like, I can change
what's gonna happen to me but I can control what I write.”

“I really just want this place like I'm gonna prove myself. I'm going to make sure that people
know I deserve to be here.”
“There's so much pressure about going and putting your music out. If I don't beat everything I've
done prior, it will be a team does like a call loss of failure.”

Taylor Swift is the Music Industry

“That was it. My life has never been better.”

“I have one album of the year at the Grammys for the second time which I never thought was a
possibility. And I remember thinking afterward, ‘Oh my God, that was all you wanted, that was all
you focused on.’ You got the mountain-top and you looked around like, ‘Oh God, what now?’ I
didn't have a partner that I climbed it with like high five. I didn't have anyone I could talk to who
could relate to those. I have my mom, but I just wondered, shouldn't I have someone that I could
call right now?”

Andrea Swift had Cancer several years ago.

“That has been really hard for me because she's my favorite person. It woke me up from this.
This life where I used to sweat all these things. But like, do you really care if the internet doesn't
like you today? If your Mom is sick from her chemo. You got to be able to prioritize what matters
to you. For me, it's my family and my friends.”

“I've learned over the years, it's not good for me to see pictures of myself everyday cause I have
a tendency. It only happened a few times and I'm not in any way proud of it. I tend to get trigger
by something whether it's a picture of me and I feel like I look like my tummy was too big where
it's like someone has said that I look pregnant or something and I would just trigger me to just
starve a little.”

“I thought that I was just like supposed to feel like I was gonna pass out in the middle of a show.
I thought that was how it works. And now I realized, no, if you eat food, have energy and get
stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel it, which is a really good revelation because
I'm a lot happier with who I am. I don't care as much if like, somebody points out that I have
gained weight. It's just something that makes my life better. The fact that I'm size 6 instead of
the size double zero. I mean, that wasn't how my body is supposed to be. I just don't really
understand that at times I really don't think I knew it. I would've defended it to anyone who said,
‘my concern is about you.’ I was like, what are you talking about? Of course, I eat. It's perfectly
normal, I just exercise a lot. And I did exercise a lot but I wasn't eating.”

“There's always some standard of beauty that you're not meeting. Cause if you're thin enough,
then you don't have that ass that everybody wants. But if you have enough weight on you, then
you have an ass, then your stomach is flat enough, it's all just fucking impossible.”
“You don't ever say to yourself like, ‘I've got an eating disorder’ but you know, you're like making
a list of everything you put in your mouth that day and that's prolly not right. But then again,
there's so much ‘dead blocks’ that would tell you that—that is what you should do.”

“It's better to think you look fat, than to look sick. And we don't do that anymore and we're
changing that channel in our rain and we're not doing that anymore. That doesn't end up in a
good place.”

“When people decided I was wicked, evil and not a good person... That was the one that I
couldn't really bounce back from, cause my whole life was centered around it.”

“#TaylorSwiftIsOverParty was the number one trend on Twitter worldwide. Do you know how
many people have to be tweeting that they hated you for that to happen?”

“Were people who got to this line of work because we wanted people who like us cause we
were intrinsically insecure. Because we like the sound of people clapping cause it made us
forget about how much we feel like we're not good enough. And I've been doing this for fifteen
years, and I'm tired of it. I'm just tired... It feels like it's more than music now at this point. And
these most days, I'm like, okay. But then sometimes, just like —it just gets loud sometimes.”

“When people fall out of love with you, there's nothing you can do to make them change their
mind. They just don't love you anymore.”

“I just wanted to disappear. Nobody physically saw me for a year. And that was what I thought
they wanted.”

“The reason why that backslash hurt so much was because that used to be all I had. I felt really
alone, not really bitter. I felt like you know, a wounded animal lashing out.”

“I think I had to reset everything.”

“I have to deconstruct an entire belief system for my own personal sanity. I also was falling in
love with someone who had a really wonderfully normal balanced grounded life. And we
decided together that we wanted our relationship to be private.”

“Even know, it was really horrible, I was happy. But I wasn't happy in the way that I've been
trained to be happy. It was happiness without anyone else is into it. It's just that we were happy.”

“I really really care about my home state and I know that at this point in time, like my home state
is a huge part of this midterm election.”

On Marsha Blackburn:
“One of the things that outraged me so much is she voted against the re-authorization of the
violence against women. Which tries to protect women from stalking, date rape, domestic
violence then obviously it's a no for gay marriage. It's a no for them to have any rights or
whatsoever.
”
“I think that I would be really upset if people think that Tennessee would stand for those things.”

“I don't know if people really want to hear my political views. I think they just kinda wanna hear
me sing songs about break ups and feelings.”

“Part of the fabric of being a country artist is don't force your politics on people. Let people live
their lives. That is grilled into us.”

“Label executives and publishers would just say, ‘don't be like the Dixie Chicks.’ And I love the
Dixie Chicks.”

“But a nice girl doesn't force their opinions on people. A nice girl smiles and waves and says
thank you. A nice girl doesn't make people feel comfortable with her views. I was so obsessed
with not getting in trouble. I was like, ‘I'm just not gonna do anything that anyone could say
anything about.’ I'm getting to the point where I can't listen to people telling me, ‘no, stay out of
it.’ ”

“This has happened to me. We told his boss. They did an investigation, and he got fired. Then
he sued me for millions of dollars. So I counter-sued for one dollar.”

“You walk in the courtroom and then there's this person sitting in this little chair, staring at you
like you did something to him. The first thing they say to you on court, ‘why didn't you scream?
Why didn't you react quicker? Why didn't you stand further away from them?’ Then he has a
lawyer get up, and just lied. There were seven people who saw him do this and we had a photo
of it happening. I was so angry that I had to be there. I was angry that this happens to women. I
was angry that people would be paid to antagonize victims. I was angry that all the details have
been twisted. You don't feel any sense of victory when you win. Because the process is so
dehumanizing. This is with seven witnesses and a photo. What happens when you get raped
and it's your word against this.”

“I guess I just think about all the people that weren't believed. And the people who haven't been
believed. The people who were afraid to speak up because they think that they won't be
believed. And 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 people didn't believe me when I said that something
had happened to me.”

“Back in the presidential election, I wasn't such a horrendous place that I wasn't gonna pop my
head out of sand for anything.”
“I need to be on the right side of history and if he doesn't win, at least I tried. I just really want
you to know that this is important to me.”

“She votes against fair play for women. She votes against the re-authorization of the violence
against women, an act which is basically protecting us from domestic abuse and stalking. She
thinks that if you're a gay couple, you should be allowed to be kicked out of a restaurant. It's
really basic human rights and it's right and wrong at this point and I can't see another
commercial and see her disguising these policies behind the words Tennessee Christian Values.
Those aren't Tennessee Christian values. I live in Tennessee, I'm a Christian. That's not what
we stand for. I need to do this.”

“I wish I didn't feel like there's a better version of me out there, I thought that way all the time.
Lot of process because we do exist in a society where women and entertainment are discarded
in an elephant graveyard and at the time of 35. Everyone shines a new toy for like, two years.
The female artists that I know of invented themselves twenty times more than the male artists.
They have to constantly having to reinvent. Constantly finding new passes of yourself that
people find to be shiny. Be new to us. Be young to us. But only in a new way and only the way
we want and we invent yourself only in a way we find to be equally comforting, but also a
challenge for you. Live out a narrative that we find to be interesting enough to entertain us but
not so crazy that it makes us uncomfortable. This is probably one of my last opportunities as an
artist to grasp on to that kind of success so I don't know as I'm reaching 30, I'm like I wanna
work really hard while society is still tolerating me being successful.”

“I educated myself now that it's time to take the masking tape off my mouth, like forever.”

“I would have loved glitter and also stand up for the double standards that exist in our society. I
want to wear pink and tell you how I feel about politics.”

“We all deserve equal rights under the law.”

“I'm trying to be as educated as possible, on how to respect people on how to deep program the
misogyny in my own brain. Toss it out, reject it and resist it. Like there is no such thing as slut.
There is no such thing as a bitch. There is no such thing as someone who's bossy, they're just
the boss. We don't want to be condemned for being multi-faceted.”

“After 13 years of constantly feeling like I was misunderstood knowing that everything that
happened was all gonna turn into this moment is fucking awesome.”

“You know there's this thing that people says about celebrities that they're frozen at the age they
got famous. And that's kinda what happened to me. I had a lot of growing up to do just trying to
catch up to 29.”
“May 19, 2003 I tried to practice my songs but I completely cite to myself out and broke down
crying. I don't know if I can do this. I want it so bad but I get so scared of what might happen.
Relax, I can handle it. I'm young. I'm talented. Do see it in me. I got to hang on.”

“I still want to have a sharp pen and a thin skin and an open heart.”