Taylor Swift Quotes

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

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

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

You want to be in touch with the fans. The fans want to get to know your personality and character.

Anybody that wants to take a picture with me I'm more than happy - I'm excited about it. I'm building that personal connection with the fans and keeping it.

I want to get to know my fans and let them get to know me. Give them an inside look at my life outside of basketball.

Most of our fans don't get to interact with us or know our personalities except through social media.

Yeah, um, I do twitter because I want people to, you know, get to know me, my fans, or my fans to get to know me, you know, just see what type of person I am. You know, hopefully be more on an intimate level with me as opposed to a distant level.

I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.

I'm very close with my fans. I'm very involved with my fans, so I've seen the influence that I can have on a child or on the mind of somebody.

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

It's really hard to be on stage and packing your gear when people who just saw you play are in the room, because they all just want to talk to you.

I love when fans recognize me. Most of the time they don't have the guts to come up, so I'm like, 'Come here, say hi! I don't bite!'

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.'

I do personal appearances, and I meet my fans, and I am genuinely honored that they come out to say 'Hello' and just to see me.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

It's always important to stay in contact with the fans, because ultimately, if they weren't there, I wouldn't be here. It's very, very important to spread the love.

The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.

I've always been online and available to my fans.

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.

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.