Taylor Swift Quotes

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

We used to sit around and chortle, 'Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he's doing. Let's stick it to him!' It's as simple as that, I swear.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

When you're nice to me, I'm nice to you; but when you are not nice, I'm even worse.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

If something happens to me, you're going to hear about it. I only know how to write songs about my life.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

I think the more emotional you are, the better. I'm sort of writing [songs] as I go and I can never tell how it's going to be or how it's going to feel until I get into the studio. But I definitely think it will. I probably can't help but have the emotions in my voice.

Sometimes I write from personal experience, but so much depends on what mood I'm in. If I'm in a good mood, I'll write happier songs.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.