（节选自Taylor Swift: In Her Own Words）
1. I try to write lyrics about what's happening to me and leave out the part that I live in hotel rooms and tour buses. It's the relatability factor. If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.(New York Times, November 7, 2008)
我尝试在歌词中去描写那些发生在自己身上的事情，省略那部分发生在酒店和巡演大巴车上的、非同寻常的生活。这样做是为了给听众带来共鸣，如果你非常刻意地去努力成为一个邻家女孩，这样通常反而不会成功。
2. I actually learned on a twelve-string, purely because some guy told me that I'd never be able to play it, that my fingers were too small. Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more. (Teen Vogaue, January 26, 2009)
事实上，我学习过弹奏十二弦吉他，这纯粹是因为有人告诉我：我的手太小了，永远无法演奏这种吉他。每当有人说我无法做到某件事情，我反而更想去做到。
3. I like to balance out the amount of happy songs, breakup songs, sentimental songs, I-miss-you songs, angry songs. I don't want to try and harp on the same emotion too much because I feel like if you make the "angry" album, that's going to lose people. (Elle, June, 2009)
我想要在一张专辑中平衡歌曲的数量：无论歌曲表达的是快乐、分手、伤感、思念还是愤怒。我不想专门只强调某一种情感，因为如果整张专辑都是关于“愤怒”，我想人们是不会喜欢的。
4. A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums. (Elle, March 4, 2010)
经历过一次失望，我可以写那么几首歌。然而经历过一次心碎，我可以写几十首歌。
5. I get so ahead of myself. I'm like, "What am I going to be doing at 30?" But there's no way to know that! So it's this endless mind-boggling equation that you'll never figure out. I overanyalyze myself into being a big bag of worries. (Vogue, January 16, 2012)
我有时候会过度思考未来。我会想“30岁的时候，我会做些什么呢？”可是我根本无法预先知道！所以这种思考就变得永无止境，让人困惑不已，你永远都无法得出结论。我过度地分析自己，这让我自己十分焦虑和困扰。
6. [Speak Now] was inspired by one of my friends who was telling me about her childhoood sweetheart crush guy who, you known, they were kind of together in high school and then they went their separate ways. And it was kind of understood that they were gonna get back together. And then so she one day comes in and tells me, "He's getting married."... Later on I just was wrapping my mind around that idea of how tragic it would be if someone you loved was marring somebody else. And then later I had a dream about one of my ex-boyfriends getting married, and it just all came together that I needed to write this song about interrupting a wedding. (Speak Now commentary)
[爱的告白]的灵感来自于我的一位朋友，她曾和我讲述她少女时期的恋爱对象，你知道的，他们在高中时曾在一起，后来就分开了。可是在两人之中，似乎存在一种默契和共识，那就是总有一天，他们会重新在一起。有一天，朋友突然告诉我：“他要结婚了……”。之后，我试图整理自己的思绪：关乎于你深爱的人同另一个人结婚这样的悲剧。后来，我又梦见自己的某个前男友和别人结婚。以上这些事情搅在一起，我就觉得有必要去写一首描绘婚礼仪式被打断的歌曲。
7. 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. (Daily Beast, October 22, 2012)
我创作的歌曲对于我来说，仿佛是塞进瓶子里面的纸条。你把它们散发到世界各地，也许，某一天某个人听到这首歌，会发觉自己当下的感受正好同歌曲重合。
8. I'm not actively looking, because you don't find anything when you're looking for it, but I think what I would mostly be looking for in a guy... is someone who sees me in my actual dimensions: 23 years old, five-foot-ten, people close to her call her "Tay", was really insecure in middle school. Like, a guy who wants to know the stories of who I was before this, and the things that aren't on my Wikipedia page and the things that didn't happen on an awards show-a guy who just wants to know the girl. (Vanity Fair, March 15, 2013)
我并不会积极去寻找爱情，因为当你刻意去寻找的时候，会发觉自己反而找不到，但是我认为自己理想中的伴侣是这样的……他能够看到真正的我：我23岁，身高5英尺10英寸，周围的朋友都亲切地称呼我为“泰”（“Tay”），在中学时曾经极度自卑。这个人会想要知道，我在成名之前都经历了什么，而非那些写在我维基百科介绍页面上的内容，他想要去了解在颁奖典礼之外发生在我身上的事情——他只是想要了解这个女孩本身，无关其他。
9. I've always made music so that I could feel camaraderie with my fans--not in a way that was trying to kind of cater to any male fantasy. And that wasn't on purpurse, that's just been what has felt natural to me. (Taylor Swift 1989, octobor 27, 2014)
一直以来，我所创作的音乐，都是为了同粉丝建立友情——而非为了迎合任何男性幻想。这一切都不是刻意而为，我觉得这都是自然而然发生的事情。
10. People always talk to you about marriages and relationships, and they say relationships take work, and you have to keep surprising each other... I think the most profound relationship I've ever had has been with my fans. That relationship takes work, and you have to continue to think of new ways to delight and surprise them. You can't just assume that because they liked on of your albums, they're going to like the new one, so you can make it exactly the same as you made the last one. You can't just assumue that beacuse they were gracious enougth to make you a part of their life last year, that they're gonna want to do the same thing this year. I think that core relationship needs to be nurtured. (Yahoo! November 6, 2014)
人们总说和你谈论婚姻和关系，他们会说：关系需要你付出努力去经营，而你需要不断给对方带来惊喜……我认为自己拥有的最深刻的关系是我同粉丝之间的。这种关系需要花心思去维护，你不得不不停地思考并寻求新的方法来让他们感到愉悦和惊喜。你不能假定：因为他们喜欢你之前的专辑，他们就一定会喜欢你的下一张专辑，以至于你就会做出一张同之前完全相同的专辑。你也不能假定：因为粉丝们足够慷慨，让你成为他们过去一年生活中的一部分，他们在今年就一定也会如此。我认为这种核心的关系是需要精心培育的。
11. You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. -But careers take hard work.-
你可以在偶然的情况下成功三四年，偶然事件时有发生。
12. A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media, and it caught on. And then a lot of people were calling me a lot of things on social media. And I went through some really low times for a while because of it. I went through some times when I didn't know if I was gonna get to do this anymore. And I guess snakes [onstage], I wanted to send a message to you guys that if someone uses name-calling to bully you on social media, and even if a lot of people jump on board with it, that doesn't have to defeat you. It can strengthen you instead. (reputation stadium tour)
几年前，有人在社交媒体上称我为“毒蛇”，这个称呼变得流行开来。之后，有越来越多的人在社交媒体上用其他称呼来说我。我因此度过了一段非常低落的时期。有一段时间，我曾经一度怀疑自己是否还能继续做音乐。我想通过在舞台上塑造蛇的形象向你们大家传递一个信息：如果有人通过称号在社交媒体上霸凌你，即使很多其他人也跟风加入，这一切也不足以打败你，事实上，这反而让你更加强大。
13. [Fans] had to work really hard to get the tickets. I want to play a show that was longer than they every thought it would be, because that makes me feel good leaving stadium... I know I'm going on that stage whether I'm sick, injured, heartbroken, uncomfortable, or stressed. That's part of my identity as a human being now. If someone buys a ticket to my show, I'm going to play it unless we have some sort of force majeure. (Eras Tour, 2023)
为了买到演唱会的票，粉丝们必须付出巨大努力。我想要进行一次超长时间的演出，时间长到出乎他们的意料，因为这让我在离开场馆时感觉良好……我深知，哪怕我生病、受伤、心碎、不适、或者压力过大，我都会登上舞台。这是我目前作为一个人类的身份所在。如果有人买了票来看我的演出，除非发生某种不可抗力事件，我一定会进行表演。
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