Taylor Swift Quotes

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The older I get, the easier it is to be all of me.

I just know who I am and what I like.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

As you get older, you become more unapologetic about how you really are, how you feel about things, and you really say it out loud.

I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.

I am who I am; no more, no less.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.

I am just what I am, I'm just what you see. So I'll make it easy, I'll stay me.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

I am who I am.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.