Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swiftis an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed with the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 marked the start of her career as a country music singer. Her third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth13 December 1989
CityReading, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I'm Taylor, I'm 11 and I want a record deal.
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.'
I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school
A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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.
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.
I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.
I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
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.