✍🏼| Taylor on the aspect of “fame”: “Fame, that’s sort of a byproduct of my love for music. It’s kind of like songwriter plus Nashville equals fame. It’s why a lot of people know the words to my music, which is awesome. It’s also why there’s sort of like these daily random doses of chaos that just pop up in my life every once in a while, every couple of hours. That can be kind of weird, but I have tools in place in my mind that help me navigate that and get back to true north when life feels so bizarre. Those tools are my memories and the memories that I visit most frequently when I need to return back to some semblance of remembering what normalcy is and why I do this.”

🎥| Kat Graham (Bonnie from The Vampire Diaries) on meeting Taylor Swift and what she learnt from Taylor's kindness and humbleness and how she behaves backstage despite being a superstar: "That's why I like Taylor Swift, to be clear, I ride for her!!"

Taylor recalled the humble beginnings behind her debut album in a newly published 2008 interview with Variety. When her first single was being sent to radio, Big Machine had just 10 employees and no furniture, so Taylor and her mom sat on the floor helping stuff the CDs into envelopes themselves.