Singer Archives - Pictorial Quotes

I just love comic books. I’ve always loved comic book art, and I just think it’s amazing.

Zayn Malik

I’ve got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

Zayn Malik

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

Zayn Malik

I think people I’m close to find it absolutely crazy that I’m famous.

Zayn Malik

You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.

Zayn Malik

I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

Zayn Malik

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward.

Zayn Malik

Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.

Zayn Malik

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That’s part of my image, so it’s cool.

Zayn Malik

It’s nice to look out and see your family supporting you.

Zayn Malik

I consider myself very lucky, essentially – I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

Zayn Malik

I’d call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I’m kind of chilled out, laid back.

Zayn Malik

Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn’t really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He’s a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

Zayn Malik

I’m kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.

Zayn Malik

When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

Zayn Malik

When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.

Zayn Malik

I do feel like I’ve missed out a bit because I was really close with my sisters when I was at home. It must be weird for them but they cope really well.

Zayn Malik

It’s pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they’re going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 – it’s a big change for girls.

Zayn Malik

Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I’m very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don’t really like playing mind games.

Zayn Malik

Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

Zayn Malik

When we were on ‘The X Factor,’ we didn’t realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn’t really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

Zayn Malik

Our parents are obviously proud, but they’re still trying to get used to the fact that we’re in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn’t in it!

Zayn Malik

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

Zayn Malik

I’m always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you’re bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

Zayn Malik

We needed to make a sound that’s not gonna fit in with everything else – we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I’m really happy with the sound.

Zayn Malik

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

Zayn Malik

The reason I don’t tweet as much as I used to, is because I’m sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

Zayn Malik

If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It’s normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it’s cool.

Zayn Malik

I’m a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis’s house and watch ‘X Factor.’

Zayn Malik

We didn’t really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It’s just crazy that people know our music. We’re just humbled by it.

Zayn Malik

I like the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy.

Zayn Malik

I’m a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He’s too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

Zayn Malik

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I’d be doing half the stuff I’m doing, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Zayn Malik

I’m not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

Zayn Malik

One Direction is the main thing I’m doing and I’m 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

Zayn Malik

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

No one gave me an opportunity, which I desperately needed in my struggling days. If there is one thing that I have learned during that period is that you need to create an opportunity yourself if you want to live your dream.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I don’t understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a hit among youth.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

We celebrate Valentine Day, but no one remembers Bhagat Singh birth anniversary.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am either very expensive or free for my friends.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don’t want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I was born in Delhi, have stayed and roamed the world, but had a tough childhood and career path. Only my mom and mausie supported me in music. So, I would just sing shabad kirtan to remain somehow attached to music.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

In 2011, I released my first album called ‘International Villager.’ I had no support, and whatever money I had made, I put it all in the album. I shot the music video for ‘Brown Rang’ with one lakh dollars. I spent so much money, as I just wanted to put it up on YouTube, as I knew that my market was there, and it became a huge hit.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

People are wrong when they say that there is struggle in Bollywood. That is only when you don’t have the talent. If you have talent, Bollywood comes to you.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Fame, for me, is different. Fame, for me, is not seeing myself on big billboards: it is when I go on a street and people connect to me. If I going to walk on the street, I know I can get 100,000 people following me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

If you see me as a controversial artist or controversial human being, then I could be cashing in on some reality shows. I am not doing anything like that. That’s not my aim.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I did one show in Chennai. There was this little kid, dressed up as I dressed in ‘Blue Eyes.’ That’s fame for me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be , the rock star.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’m sorry, but I am not interested in getting cheap popularity. I’ve earned my success through sincere hard work. And that’s the only success I want.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’d never disrespect women. I have been brought up to treat women with courtesy and dignity.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’d request politicians to stop diverting attention from the actual issues that affect the country. Please stop resorting to soft targets like singers and musicians as scapegoats.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

All my songs depict a slice of life and how youngsters perceive it. My song ‘Blue Eyes’ is exactly the kind of conversation a 21 or 22-year-old guy will have with the girl he likes.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

For a Punjabi singer to find acceptance down South is a tall task. I’m glad I earned their love and respect.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Nobody can replace Mika Singh; he is an amazing artiste and a legend.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I never do any song with any expectation.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’d sing for any friend’s happiness. I don’t have to get drunk to do so.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

There are many wrestlers in my mother’s family. So I guess I’ve inherited my love for wrestling from my mother’s side of the family.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

It’s very important to get friends on board, friends who make a difference.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

We want to take boxing to the level of cricket.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

When I was child, I saw the ‘Ram Leela’ performed on stage. Now there is the film ‘Ram Leela,’ and its maker actually wanted me to do a song for Akshay Kumar in ‘Gabbar.’ Akshay was one of the first Bollywood A-listers to believe in me. We jelled before we jammed together.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I always maintained I’m a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Even the song that I did for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gabbar’ is an old number. But working with Mr Bhansali was a dream come true.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am overwhelmed with all the love, affection, and warmth that I have been receiving for ‘Dheere Dheere.’ It is one of my most special works, and I am glad that so many million hearts have taken to it in such a manner.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I don’t want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I need to focus on other things before I carry on in Bollywood. I can’t be doing what I’ve done in ‘Lungi Dance’ and now the song ‘Party With Bhootnath’ with Bachchan over and over again. I’ve to reinvent myself for Bollywood.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I have fulfilled all my dreams in Bollywood. Now I have to find new dreams for Bollywood before I strike again.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

After I did ‘Lungi Dance’ with Shah Rukh, I felt I had achieved everything there is to achieve. But then I am getting to work with Amitabh Bachchan now. And it’s really the ultimate Bollywood experience for me. It really can’t get any better for me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’m working on an international album which will be out soon, and Lollypop is gonna be a part of it. I want to let the world know what happens when a desi song is remixed with Honey Singh’s English Tadka.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am not anyone’s brother, and I only have one younger sister. I don’t consider my counterpart rappers as my brothers.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I thought I was passionate about my work. Then I saw Shah Rukh bhai and Bachchan saab at work. Their spirit was so infectious. I felt I had so far been just fooling around.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am excited to partner with American Swan and to be able to connect with the youth and inspire them to chase their dreams and script their destinies.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘The Xpose’ was just an experiment, a small step into Bollywood. It wasn’t my acting debut, as reported in Mumbai. I’ve done a couple of Punjabi films.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My playground as a musician is growing.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

The guy I played in ‘The Xpose’ is more like a spoiled brat who likes to have his way than a villain. No more negative roles after ‘The Xpose’ for me. I’ve enough problems dealing with the negative image I’ve been saddled with in some sections.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I was looking online; many singers have sung songs for the elections, but I am not doing anything like that.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

There are many politicians who are from the Congress or the BJP or the Aam Aadmi Party who are all my friends and who are all young politicians between the ages of 27 and 35.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I would never sing a song which I cannot sing in front of my family.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am a straight, non-alcoholic, non-partying guy who speaks straight. I have no knowledge of literature. This is my language of communication, and what I see, what I observe, I reflect.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else’s character and to behave like that on screen.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I was never seen with one girl in a video, right? My videos always had many girls.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I don’t consider myself just a rapper or just a singer. I’m a music producer, lyricist. I’m a poet as well, and acting is also a part of big entertainment.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I’ve seen my family watch TV every day, and they develop a liking for various characters more and more with time. So, I think TV does bring a celeb closer to his fans. I feel I have come closer to people without losing my raw appeal.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

It’s never easy for me to say goodbye. I get attached to people very quickly, and with ‘Raw Stars,’ my connection is even more special. I’m in love with their music and perhaps their biggest fan. I think every artiste on the show is mind-blowing.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

It’s a misconception that I compose songs for girls. I have sung a song for Bhagat Singh, too, but nobody knows about it. I have sung about boys, but all of them are super-duper flop.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am not interested to sing in Bollywood. I sing for only those actors whom I admire. I sing free of cost for them. I want to take independent music ahead, and my songs are completely based on my observations.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am yet to have a child, and if I am blessed with a baby girl, and in future, if a guy tries to impress my daughter by singing my hits, I have no issues with it.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I respect women, and I have not and will never sing anything that will upset my fans.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am glad that my fan believed in me and stood by me in my hard times and continued to enjoy my songs. That’s the real victory for me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Have you driven a Rolls-Royce? There is a difference between a Rolls-Royce and a Nano.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Writing songs, making music, and singing is important to me, and I do all three.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I do not consume alcohol. You won’t find a single picture that shows me drinking.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

As an entertainer, my first responsibility is to entertain my fans who have made me who I am today. I am not a preacher who can tell youngsters what they should be doing and what they should not be doing. The youth of our country is intelligent enough to know what is good and bad, and my songs can’t change their thinking.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I had to work on my own to establish myself.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I like action-based sports, and kabbadi is my favourite. I wanted to be associated with a sport on which I really believe in, and so I bought a team in World Kabbadi League, and Toronto will host my team.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

My family didn’t want me to be a musician, and therefore, they never helped out in my efforts.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

The kind of songs I sing have been existing in Bollywood music since a long time. In fact, the reason my music is so popular amongst the millions of youth is because I sing in their own language, in their own slang, and about their lives.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Just because I take my music international doesn’t mean I have to sing in English. I will continue to sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Tamil. I want to represent my own country through its own languages.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I wish to contribute more to south Indian music, especially Tamil music.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Everything I wear is custom made.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I didn’t have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I got a lot of support from the entire industry, stars like Akshay Kumar. A. R. Rahman told me to keep doing the good work and not get bogged down by anything.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

After ten years of struggle I reached somewhere, and then I see some people pulling me down. I tell myself that if this is what singers have to go through, I would never let my kid enter this field.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

As an artiste, I believe that I am not my own property. I am the property of my fans.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am overwhelmed for whatever I have achieved so far. I give the credit to my mother and everyone who has helped me.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I don’t take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

When Punjabis all over the world admired my work, there was buzz in Bollywood as well.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I think acting is the most difficult one among all the performing arts.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

The truth is I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn’t working on me, and crazy things were happening.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

I had cut myself off from everyone. I didn’t come out of my room, forget stepping out of the house. I had a beard, and I didn’t get a haircut for months. For someone who has performed in front of a crowd of 20,000, I was scared of facing 4-5 people. That’s what bipolar disorder does to you.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there.

Yasmine Hamdan

I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate.

Yasmine Hamdan

I think our societies – to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception – have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.

Yasmine Hamdan

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

Yasmine Hamdan

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

Yasmine Hamdan

I studied psychology at university.

Yasmine Hamdan

I love Khaliji music; it’s very inspiring.

Yasmine Hamdan

I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album ‘Ya Nass.’ He was writing the script for ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’ Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic.

Yasmine Hamdan

I don’t think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

Yasmine Hamdan

My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.

Yasmine Hamdan

I don’t relate to what is seen as ‘Arab culture.’ I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me.

Yasmine Hamdan

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

Yasmine Hamdan

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

Yasmine Hamdan

‘Al Jamilat’ is not just feminist. It’s an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.

Yasmine Hamdan

Women are a minority the same way gay people are.

Yasmine Hamdan

I’ve always fought any form of censorship.

Yasmine Hamdan

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

Yasmine Hamdan

For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.

Yasmine Hamdan

We all have femininity in us.

Yasmine Hamdan

As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song.

Yasmine Hamdan

There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it’s really about coming together and creating bridges.

Yasmine Hamdan

When I go to Beirut, I don’t drive. It’s traumatizing to drive there.

Yasmine Hamdan

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.

Yasmine Hamdan

I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and be in a more competitive environment because I wanted to grow as an artist. That’s why I went to Europe.

Yasmine Hamdan

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

Yasmine Hamdan

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.

Yasmine Hamdan

Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.

Yasmine Hamdan

Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say – Kate Bush and Radiohead – and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.

Yasmine Hamdan

I’m Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

Yasmine Hamdan

I had an Arabic background. but I lived a very scattered childhood. I didn’t belong to any one culture, which meant I didn’t have musical geographies in my head.

Yasmine Hamdan

The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to ’60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.

Yasmine Hamdan

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

Yasmine Hamdan

It’s interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It’s a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

Yasmine Hamdan

A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It’s important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.

Yasmine Hamdan

There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

Yasmine Hamdan

I’m bored, normally, when I travel.

Yasmine Hamdan

Music liberated me.

Yasmine Hamdan

I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It’s an asset – something rather liberating.

Yasmine Hamdan

I have a sense of mission in a way. I’ve always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

Yasmine Hamdan

When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they’re often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening.

Yasmine Hamdan

World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.

Yasmine Hamdan

It’s complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world – I sing in Arabic, but there’s no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.

Yasmine Hamdan

I sing ‘Beirut’ for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

Yasmine Hamdan

When the public doesn’t understand me, it’s a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

Yasmine Hamdan

When I started, I didn’t know how to sing in Arabic – it’s a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

Yasmine Hamdan

I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head.

Yasmine Hamdan

With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.

Yasmine Hamdan

Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.

Yasmine Hamdan

All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character.

Yasmine Hamdan

Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum.

Yasmine Hamdan

It’s normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture – as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.

Yasmine Hamdan

I don’t believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

Yasmine Hamdan

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna’s producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream – it was interesting.

Yasmine Hamdan

I wanted to pursue my own thing – I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

Yasmine Hamdan

I set the bar very high. I’m very tough on myself.

Yasmine Hamdan

I’ve always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital.

Yasmine Hamdan

My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.

Yasmine Hamdan

I was born in the middle of Lebanon’s civil war.

Yasmine Hamdan

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too – liberated and provocative.

Yasmine Hamdan

I’m inspired by many artists whose language I don’t understand.

Yasmine Hamdan

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It’s art, and it’s a challenge.

Yasmine Hamdan

I follow my desires, and I’m prepared to take the consequences.

Yasmine Hamdan

The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people – puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.

Yasmine Hamdan

When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.

Yasmine Hamdan

There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I’m not interested.

Yasmine Hamdan

Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don’t do it unless this person inspires you.

Yasmine Hamdan

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can’t have a healthy evolution.

Yasmine Hamdan

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

Yasmine Hamdan

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn’t begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

Utah Phillips

Oh, mercy, I think we’re all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

Utah Phillips

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what’s going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I’m sure of it.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. .

Utah Phillips

I created my own party. It’s called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I’m running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I’ve studied the presidency carefully.

Utah Phillips

I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

Utah Phillips

It is better to be likable than to be talented.

Utah Phillips

It’s nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don’t change very fast. I am one of those.

Utah Phillips

I don’t need fame and I don’t need power and I don’t need wealth. I’m in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

Utah Phillips

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

Utah Phillips

I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn’t looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Utah Phillips

Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m hungry for VMAs and Grammys. That’s my main goal.

Tyler-The Creator

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

Tyler-The Creator

I never had a drink in my life. I don’t smoke or anything.

Tyler-The Creator

I like my raps, but I’m never too happy with some of ’em because I feel like they could be better.

Tyler-The Creator

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

Tyler-The Creator

I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I’m so stoked my life panned out how it was.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m not hip-hop. I’m Tyler.

Tyler-The Creator

I try to tell all the – not even the kids, even people older than me – to just be themselves. Don’t wear what I wear ’cause I wear it; wear what you like.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m an optimistic guy. I’m one of those big dreamers. I’m one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Tyler-The Creator

I tweet early in the morning when I wake up or late at night just to let you know that I have a show or what’s on my mind, and that’s it. I hate Snapchat and all of that. It’s making kids so stupid.

Tyler-The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Tyler-The Creator

I want to do films and have my name mentioned next to Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. I don’t want my name mentioned next to other rappers at all.

Tyler-The Creator

To me, Sid Vicious is cool. Super chill.

Tyler-The Creator

I don’t really listen to rap; I just like to rap.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.

Tyler-The Creator

Somebody called me a homophobe. I’m not homophobic.

Tyler-The Creator

Hawthorne sucks… It’s a crazy place, and I’m happy that I was the weird one that got out.

Tyler-The Creator

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids… I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that’s what I gravitated to.

Tyler-The Creator

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don’t have to worry about anything ever again.

Tyler-The Creator

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys… I’ma spread it out, but I’ma design, probably when I’m just designing furniture and buildings, I’ll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

Tyler-The Creator

I never want to grow up.

Tyler-The Creator

I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m a big ‘Goosebumps’ fan – ‘Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.’ My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

Tyler-The Creator

I don’t like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

Tyler-The Creator

I wasn’t shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m not a follower. I’m a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.

Tyler-The Creator

For the record, I don’t worship the devil. I just hate religion.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

Tyler-The Creator

My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Tyler-The Creator

I don’t like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Tyler-The Creator

Usually, when I’m rappin’, I’m creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Tyler-The Creator

If the world was ending, I think I would grab some Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a bunch of water, and I’d probably just… I’d probably go crazy.

Tyler-The Creator

The thing is, I make music I like. So it’s just weird if someone says they don’t like it.

Tyler-The Creator

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I’m like a trifecta.

Travis Scott

I design music; I don’t produce it.

Travis Scott

Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.

Travis Scott

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It’s the drive. It’s the passion.

Travis Scott

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his masters in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

Travis Scott

That’s where I get my whole music theory from, my pops and my grandfather.

Travis Scott

I have black friends, but I don’t just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.

Travis Scott

I think I’m cool. That’s all that matters.

Tyler-The Creator

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

Tyler-The Creator

I’m like a big 10-year-old when I’m on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.

Tyler-The Creator

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I’m saying? Like, c’mon.

Travis Scott

I want to do what Kid Cudi did for kids for my generation.

Travis Scott

I must say, I’ve been in the studio with Jay Z, dog… I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

Travis Scott

I don’t really write. I’m an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let’s listen to it; let’s vibe. And then I’ll do a melody, and then we’ll go back and do it.

Travis Scott

Kanye and T.I. both engage with what I’m doing.

Travis Scott

Growing up in Houston, the music scene is super boring.

Travis Scott

I was in early on with ‘Yeezus.’

Travis Scott

I felt like ‘Owl Pharoah,’ not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Travis Scott

‘Days Before Rodeo’ is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

Travis Scott

One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.

Travis Scott

I’m a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.

Travis Scott

I always hate when, like, my favorite performer has a boring moment. Especially when they got mad hits.

Travis Scott

I don’t get why radio shows allow artists to do shows without creative control, without any art direction at all. Instead of that, I get their press guys, their camera guys to be my backdrop of my show.

Travis Scott

Every time I go into the studio, it’s some next level, man.

Travis Scott

I have this old Polo jacket. I’ve got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that somebody gave to me. It’s this jumpsuit with this cape on the back that this one person gave to me. It’s clutch.

Travis Scott

I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It’s more adaptive to young kids. It’s more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I’ve always been into it.

Travis Scott

My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail. So, I’ve always been around it. I’ve always had that connection. Always.

Travis Scott

Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.

Travis Scott

I don’t need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

Travis Scott

I feel like ‘Birds in the Trap’ seem united; it’s just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can’t get their creative idea out.

Travis Scott

You’ve gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

Travis Scott

With albums like ‘Rodeo,’ ‘Days Before Rodeo’ and ‘Owl Pharaoh,’ I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.

Travis Scott

I’ve been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

Travis Scott

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

Travis Scott

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. ‘Cause that’s my favorite thing in music. That’s the whole drive. That’s the reason.

Travis Scott

I feel like God put me here to help out with people’s soul, man.

Travis Scott

I don’t write; I just go in the booth.

Travis Scott

Fans be reflecting the way I be making music.

Travis Scott

I know what my identity is.

Travis Scott

Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That’s why I hit N.Y.; that’s why I hit L.A. That’s why I hit Paris, London. I just picked up basically everything, but I morphed it into what Travi$ Scott is and into what I know is fresh.

Travis Scott

There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I’m just a kid with it.

Travis Scott

I’m always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don’t think I could deal with the criticism.

Travis Scott

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

Travis Scott

I’m not hip-hop.

Travis Scott

You’ve gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You’ve gotta give ’em that music to make ’em feel like they’re OK, and it’s only a couple of artists that do that.

Travis Scott

I skipped ‘College Dropout’ and ‘Late Registration’ and went straight to ‘808s & Heartbreak.’

Travis Scott

I’m an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

Travis Scott

My work ethic is crazy. I’m a producer, an artist, and a video director.

Travis Scott

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

Travis Scott

I’ve got a song with Roscoe Dash – that’s next level, man.

Travis Scott

Honestly, I really can’t speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

Travis Scott

I was on mad platinum albums… I produced and wrote on them.

Travis Scott

A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.

Travis Scott

I love my fans more than anything.

Travis Scott

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

Travis Scott

My music isn’t rappity-rap-rap-rap.

Travis Scott

I’m a Bieber fan, man! That kid is ill!

Travis Scott

Cudi should be a top tier artist… I think he fathered a lot of the style of music. He’s a good influence and a good help.

Travis Scott

I remember my mom bought me one of their shirts for Easter so that I could wear Helmut Lang for Easter. That was my first piece.

Travis Scott

I don’t look at myself as a designer; I’m focused on music.

Travis Scott

You can’t buy being a rock star.

Travis Scott

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I’ve literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It’s not like I psyche myself; I don’t do any of that.

Travis Scott

I have devoted myself to the Rockets.

Travis Scott

When you come to my show, it’s like a no-holds-barred, underground Royal Rumble.

Travis Scott

I’m super nice – I just get excited!

Travis Scott

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It’s very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It’s not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

Travis Scott

My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.

Travis Scott

In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don’t care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.

Travis Scott

I don’t know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I’ve never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, ‘Man, I’m in the presence of ‘Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.’

Travis Scott

Kanye is the leading eagle: he’s like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

Travis Scott

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

Travis Scott

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

Travis Scott

I’m big on diversity. My music is very diverse; I don’t want it to ever be typecasted.

Travis Scott

When I was three years old, my dad bought me my first drum set.

Travis Scott

You grow up in a small community, there’s no outlet like New York or L.A.

Travis Scott

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

Travis Scott

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

Travis Scott

I’m La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.

Travis Scott

I wouldn’t make music with you if I didn’t know you. If you’re a good artist, and if you know it as well, I’m down.

Travis Scott

You can’t buy swag.

Travis Scott

Beyonce is, like, the highest level. We all reach for that level.

Travis Scott

I’m not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it’s directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

Travis Scott

My whole story is straight mythical. It’s tangible, but it’s also what life could be.

Travis Scott

I’m not a gangsta.

Travis Scott

I’m a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

Travis Scott

Drake is an amazing person. Also, a magician. He’s a big brother, super-talent; he’s cool.

Travis Scott

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture. Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

Travis Scott

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that’s always been my mindset.

Travis Scott

James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He’s real different than what you thinks. He’s super turned up.

Travis Scott

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

Travis Scott

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

Travis Scott

You can’t buy vision, and you can’t buy aesthetic.

Travis Scott

I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.

Travis Scott

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

Travis Scott

I’m attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

Travis Scott

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Taylor Swift

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Taylor Swift

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Taylor Swift

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Taylor Swift

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

Taylor Swift

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Taylor Swift

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Taylor Swift

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

Taylor Swift

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Taylor Swift

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Taylor Swift

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

Taylor Swift

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Taylor Swift

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Taylor Swift

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Taylor Swift

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Taylor Swift

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Taylor Swift

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

Taylor Swift

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Taylor Swift

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

Taylor Swift

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Taylor Swift

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Taylor Swift

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

Taylor Swift

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Taylor Swift

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Taylor Swift

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Taylor Swift

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Taylor Swift

‘Love Story’ I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

Taylor Swift

I get nervous for everything – literally everything.

Taylor Swift

There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

Taylor Swift

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Taylor Swift

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

Taylor Swift

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‘Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.’

Taylor Swift

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Taylor Swift

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

Taylor Swift

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Taylor Swift

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Taylor Swift

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Taylor Swift

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Taylor Swift

For me, ‘risky’ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Taylor Swift

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Taylor Swift

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Taylor Swift

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Taylor Swift

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Taylor Swift

I love being a part of the country-music community.

Taylor Swift

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Taylor Swift

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Taylor Swift

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Taylor Swift

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Taylor Swift

I’m typically single. I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Taylor Swift

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

Taylor Swift

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Taylor Swift

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

Taylor Swift

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Taylor Swift

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Taylor Swift

Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

Taylor Swift

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Taylor Swift

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

Taylor Swift

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.’

Taylor Swift

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‘I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.’

Taylor Swift

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Taylor Swift

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written… Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn’t have much of a social life going on.

Taylor Swift

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Taylor Swift

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Taylor Swift

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

Taylor Swift

It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Taylor Swift

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Taylor Swift

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Taylor Swift

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Taylor Swift

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Taylor Swift

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Taylor Swift

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Taylor Swift

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Taylor Swift

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

Taylor Swift

I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It’s my go-to breakfast.

Taylor Swift

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

Taylor Swift

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

Taylor Swift

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Taylor Swift

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

Taylor Swift

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

Taylor Swift

I don’t like to feel like I’m some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

Taylor Swift

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Taylor Swift

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Taylor Swift

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

Taylor Swift

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

Taylor Swift

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Taylor Swift

I’m the girl who – I call it girl-next-door-itis – the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

Taylor Swift

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Taylor Swift

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

Taylor Swift

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Taylor Swift

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

Taylor Swift

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Taylor Swift

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Taylor Swift

My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a ‘home base’ and stick with your comfort style.

Taylor Swift

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

Taylor Swift

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Taylor Swift

I don’t like to feel like I’m in a club when I’m in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.

Taylor Swift

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Taylor Swift

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Taylor Swift

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Taylor Swift

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

Taylor Swift

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

Taylor Swift

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Taylor Swift

I don’t mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven’t really thought about it since then. I don’t go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I’m in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don’t really think about it very much.

Taylor Swift

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Taylor Swift

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Taylor Swift

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Taylor Swift

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Taylor Swift

Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

Taylor Swift

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Taylor Swift

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Taylor Swift

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Taylor Swift

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Taylor Swift

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Taylor Swift

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.

Taylor Swift

My imagination is a twisted place.

Taylor Swift

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

Taylor Swift

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

Taylor Swift

I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

Taylor Swift

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Taylor Swift

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Taylor Swift

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Taylor Swift

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Taylor Swift

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Taylor Swift

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Taylor Swift

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Taylor Swift

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn’t I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Taylor Swift

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

Taylor Swift

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

Taylor Swift

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

Taylor Swift

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Taylor Swift

‘Love Story’ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Taylor Swift

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

Taylor Swift

So many girls come up and say to me, ‘I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn’t even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I’m obsessed.’ That’s the coolest compliment to me.

Taylor Swift

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Taylor Swift

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It’s not just 15-year-old girls. That’s kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Taylor Swift

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Taylor Swift

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

Taylor Swift

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Taylor Swift

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There’s a select few that will never like me. They don’t like what I stand for. They don’t like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They’re going to be negative no matter what.

Taylor Swift

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Taylor Swift

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Taylor Swift

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Taylor Swift

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

Taylor Swift

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Taylor Swift

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

Taylor Swift

I love Wiz Khalifa.

Taylor Swift

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Taylor Swift

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

Taylor Swift

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Taylor Swift

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

Taylor Swift

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

Taylor Swift

I’m a girls’ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

Taylor Swift

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Taylor Swift

Just because you make a good plan, doesn’t mean that’s what’s gonna happen.

Taylor Swift

When you say ‘control freak’ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

Taylor Swift

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Taylor Swift

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

Taylor Swift

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Taylor Swift

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Taylor Swift

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Taylor Swift

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Taylor Swift

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Taylor Swift

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

Taylor Swift

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

Taylor Swift

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