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 দ্বারা anything else that falls into the "cute" অথবা "cozy" categories. I learned to play গিটার 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 প্রণয় Nashville. That's where I live, when I'm lucky enough to be there. I প্রণয় 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 প্রণয় 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 প্রণয় bright রঙ and things that make reality seem আরো whimsical than it is. I have a collection of ribbons and headbands, and I প্রণয় 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. প্রণয় 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 আরো fascinated দ্বারা 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 প্রণয় 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 লেখা songs about -- আরো 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 অথবা 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 আরো 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 প্রণয় sparkles and grocery shopping and really old মার্জার that are only nice to আপনি half the time. I still প্রণয় লেখা in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in প্রণয় with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I প্রণয় 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 দ্বারা ফুটবল players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing অথবা saying anything uncool, and wishing every মিনিট of every দিন that one দিন maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. অথবা something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I প্রণয় old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I প্রণয় the freedom of living alone, but I also প্রণয় 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 আপনি need fries and a চকোলেট milkshake and your mom. I প্রণয় picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a যেভাবে খুশী page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my অনুরাগী from the very first day, but they've ব্যক্ত things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my বন্ধু -- আরো now than ever before. I'll never go a দিন without thinking about our memories together.

For the last two years, I've been লেখা and recording an album called Speak Now. I only have the option of লেখা 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 অথবা speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my গিটার 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 আপনি to hear these stories and confessions.

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