Taylor Swift Quotes

I think that you have to get out there and get with the folks and push the flesh and be connected to viewers and listeners.

The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them. It's really fun in that way.

I love meeting the fans, and I love shaking hands, and that's what it's all about. It really is.

It's always a lot of fun to get to interact with people and meet different fans.

I need to reach a lot of people to sell records.

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It's amazing. And it's free. I love it. It's absolutely brilliant.

It's really about making opportunities for yourself and connecting with people on a more-than-normal level. That opens doors. You never know if the caterer's brother is someone. You don't know who someone is having dinner with that night. So being a nice person and touching people creates opportunity.

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

As far as engaging with fans... it's a tricky thing. I enjoy seeing the feedback on Twitter, etc. It's probably the actor in me.

I’ll be down there pressing the flesh.

The great thing about being in this business is that you meet people, and I met Sally Struthers.

I know I'm appreciated by how fans treat me, and the best way to treat them is play every day, hard. I sign autographs, but if I'm with someone I don't know who doesn't start the conversation, there won't be a conversation. That's just me, living my life. But I'll loosen up after baseball.

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.

I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

People think you can find a mentor by walking up to somebody and saying, 'Hey, be my mentor,' or by sending an e-mail to someone you've never e-mailed before and saying, 'Hey, I want you to mentor me.' But, mentorship really happens in rooms that you're actually in.

The best part of my career has been the relationships with the fans and the kids.

I am very conscious of the fact I am in people's living rooms every day, and they feel like they know me.

Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.