Hi, I'm Taylor. I've been alive for 22 years now, and I finally have my own kitchen. I'm very excited about this, and generally excited bởi anything else that falls into the "cute" hoặc "cozy" categories. I learned to play đàn ghi ta, guitar when I was twelve from this guy named Ronnie who came over to fix my parents' computer. I like quilts. But that's probably because I'm always freezing cold. I tình yêu Nashville. That's where I live, when I'm lucky enough to be there. I tình yêu the town so much, I sometimes feel like I should just roll the windows down in my car (nicknamed the Toyoat. Because it's a Toyota) and scream "I tình yêu THIS TOWN" loudly out the windows. That wouldn't be weird, right? Every time I try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people. My lucky number always has been and always will be 13. It pops up in front of me in the most obvious and undeniable ways, but only when something good is about to happen. I'm a Sagittarius. I think that means I'm always looking for something new. It also means I have a Christmas-themed birthday party every year. I tình yêu bright màu sắc and things that make reality seem thêm whimsical than it is. I have a collection of ribbons and headbands, and I tình yêu them all the same. I over-think and over-plan and over-organize. I've been like this since I was a baby, before I was gigantically tall and over-talkative.

These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. tình yêu is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even thêm fascinated bởi it:
I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because tình yêu is unpredictable, frustrating, tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth nghề viết văn songs about -- thêm than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point hoặc another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added thêm things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still tình yêu sparkles and grocery shopping and really old mèo that are only nice to bạn half the time. I still tình yêu nghề viết văn in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in tình yêu with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I tình yêu spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed bởi bóng đá players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing hoặc saying anything uncool, and wishing every một phút of every ngày that one ngày maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. hoặc something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I tình yêu old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I tình yêu the freedom of living alone, but I also tình yêu things that make me feel seven again.
Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while bạn need fries and a Sô cô la milkshake and your mom. I tình yêu picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a ngẫu nhiên page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my những người hâm mộ from the very first day, but they've đã đưa ý kiến things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my Những người bạn -- thêm now than ever before. I'll never go a ngày without thinking about our memories together.

For the last two years, I've been nghề viết văn and recording an album called Speak Now. I only have the option of nghề viết văn about things that happen in my life, so thankfully a LOT has happened in my life in the last two years. I know I don't always say the right thing at the right time hoặc speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my đàn ghi ta, guitar and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through. Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew about. I'm beyond excited for bạn to hear these stories and confessions.

I think it's important that bạn know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing.
I'm pretty stoked that bạn read this whole thing. I commend bạn for that. This was ridiculously long, and bạn probably have other stuff bạn could've done in the last four minutes. So to you, hoặc anyone else who has spent four phút on me in some way-- listening to just one song, hoặc watching one of my videos….Thank you. I tình yêu bạn like I tình yêu sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.