Taylor is a musician who does things under her own name and tells her own stories-her songs and her albums are her.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.

I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

I think a lot of people compare their insides to other people’s outsides.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

I'm into grilled cheese. Grilled cheese makes me feel beautiful!

I was a good-looking kid. I never felt, like, dorky. I was just like, 'Yup, these are my braces. I've had them forever.'

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

You Are Not the Same as Yesterday You Were".

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

It's the age of reason for the anarchist.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I had to learnto sew when I was growing up, because nothing else fitted me.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.