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“Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions

“My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions

“Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions

“See, the thing is I didn't think that that song would get much attention because it's such a personal song to me. I just wrote it about my childhood, and I didn't know how that would read on an album. But it's been everybody's favorite song. I didn't tell my mom. It was a total secret. So I wrote it in secret and then decided to record it secretly, so she had no idea that the song was recorded. My producers sent me the track and I synched it up to all my baby videos and I played it for her one Christmas Eve, and she bawled her eyes out. She didn't even think that it was my song. She didn't think there was any way for me to record a song without her knowing.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions