Taylor Swift Quotes

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I never felt comfortable in my own skin, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of high school experiences because I was so worried about where I fit in because I was so confused.

I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

Everyone fears rejection.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I do not enjoy when people don't like me.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'

I felt uncomfortable in cliques.

Pretty much everywhere I go, I'm pretty much thinking I'm going to be bounced. I am still the outsider who snuck into the party. I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.