Taylor Swift

Singer-songwriter

Contemporary influential 200 sayings

Sayings by Taylor Swift

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.

2026 (approximate, article date) — Reflecting on love, normalcy, and life under public scrutiny.
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I really had an amazing time with Cats. I think I loved the weirdness of it. I loved how I felt I'd never get another opportunity to be like this in my life.

2019 — Discussing her role in the movie 'Cats' with Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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If you told me I was gonna get to be a cat, for work?

2019 — Behind-the-scenes snippet for 'Cats' movie.
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fame is weird.

2013 — Backstage interview during 'The Red Tour'.
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writing songs helps me cope with the fact that fame is weird, you know how am I ever going to have a private life if I'm constantly narrating it and it helps me stay normal by verbalizing the fact that even though fame is weird, I still feel things the same way I always have which makes you feel more normal.

2013 — Backstage interview during 'The Red Tour'.
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I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

22008-2009 (approximate) — Reflecting on her personal choices and not drinking alcohol at 19.
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I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

2010 (approximate) — Describing her experience with relationships.
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If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

Unknown — Explaining her songwriting approach to negative experiences.
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When I see a kid throwing a massive tantrum in a grocery store, part of me is like, 'Man, I feel you.'

Unknown — Funny quote.
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Be like a snake—only bite when someone steps on you.

Unknown — Advice on dealing with negativity/critics.
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I'm having his baby.

2024 — A lyric from 'The Tortured Poets Department' discussed as her 'trolling' about public speculation on…
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I don't like sea urchins! You could lose your hand, you could lose your foot. You could lose your hand getting it off your foot!

Unknown — Expressing an irrational fear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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I'm weirdly emotional right now.

2022-2023 (approximate) — On rehearsing The Eras Tour for the first time.
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It is so much extra work to keep things a surprise.

2022-2023 (approximate) — On keeping tour details and additions a secret.
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I love having a good secret.

2024 (approximate) — On adding the TTPD set to the Eras Tour.
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There's a camera, like, a half-mile away, and you don't know where it is, and you have no idea when the camera is putting you in the broadcast, so I don't know if I'm being shown 17 times or once…. I have no awareness of if I'm being shown too much and pissing off a few dads, Brads, and Chads.

2023 — On dating Travis Kelce and attending Chiefs games, and the media scrutiny.
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It's a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure. I think a lot of people see it and they're just like, 'Sick snakes and strobe lights.'

2023 — Describing her album 'Reputation' to TIME.
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I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time.

2014 — Describing things she still loves.
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They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

2014 — On public perception vs. her reality.
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I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

2014 — Discussing her need for alone time and how she spends it.
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