Taylor Swift:
I'm just working out and getting ready for Grammys.
Q:
What's the most exciting thing in life right now?
A:
Grammys.
Q:
What are you completely bored of in life right now?
A:
Click bait.
Q:
What is something that recently moved you?
A:
The movie The Martian.
Q:
How many guitars do you own?
A:
I lost track of that in probably 2007.
Q:
What's the first song you learn to play on guitar?
A:
Kiss me by Sispence None The Richer.
Q:
What's the first thing you do when you get an idea for a song?
A:
I record a voice memo of myself singing it or I write it down on my notes.
Q:
What's your songwriting process?
A:
Lots of preparations. I write a lot of my ideas down before I get to the actual session.
Q:
What song took you the least amount of time to write?
A:
Blank Space, because I've written a lot of the lines down already in the year preceding the session.
Q:
Which one took you the longest?
A:
All Too Well, because it's really an emotional song and I kept putting it down for months.
Q:
Is this the room where you keep all your awards?
A:
No, they're kind of everywhere.
Q:
Who is your favorite teacher?
A:
My guitar player, Paul Sidoti teaches me a lot on the road about piano and guitar.
Q:
If you could teach one subject in school, what would it be?
A:
English.
Q:
What's your favorite beverage?
A:
Coffee.
Q:
What's your favorite cocktail?
A:
Vodka and Diet Coke.
Q:
What's your favorite food?
A:
If we're just saying like what I wish I could eat everyday, if calories can count, it's Chicken tenders.
Q:
What would you order at a drive-thru?
A:
Cheese burger, fries, and chocolate shake.
Q:
What was the best birthday cake you'd ever had?
A:
It was from Milk bar. It was from my 25th birthday. It was so good that even Jay-Z rave about it.
Q:
What was the last thing you bake?
A:
A gluten-free, dairy-free chocolate cake.
Q:
What one thing do you need to have in your fridge at any given time?
A:
Hummus, weirdly.
Q:
What one thing you still have from your childhood?
A:
My insecurities.
Q:
What's your favorite TV show of all time?
A:
Friends.
Q:
Favorite TV show that currently on the air?
A:
Dateline.
Q:
What is your favorite movie?
A:
Love Actually.
Q:
What was the movie that made you cry your eyes out?
A:
The Martian.
Q:
Why do you think you're the most followed person in Instagram?
A:
Because my cats are adorable!
Q:
Have you ever googled yourself?
A:
Yeah.
Q:
What do you think when you google yourself?
A:
I think you should never google yourself again.
Q:
If you have a superpower, what would it be?
A:
Healing people.
Q:
If you are not a singer, what would you be doing?
A:
Might be in advertising. Maybe like coming up with slogans and concepts is the same as hooks and songs.
Q:
Can you show me a really cool or bizarre talent?
A:
I'm well aware that this is not a talent but this is the only thing I can do. I have a double-jointed elbows. They're weird.
Q:
What's something you can't do?
A:
I can't do a cartwheel or a handstand.
Q:
What's the best compliment you've ever received
A:
That I'm generous.
Q:
What's the best gift you've ever received?
A:
My boyfriend planted an olive tree in my yard for Christmas.
Q:
What's one habit you wish you could break?
A:
When I'm sitting, usually I just do this with my leg *shakes leg* and people think that I'm nervous and then they get nervous then everybody is nervous
Q:
Do you have any nicknames?
A:
Yeah. My brother calls me Teffy.
Q:
What's surprises you the most about people?
A:
I'm pleasantly surprised by the fact that I tell my friends absolutely everything and it never ends up getting out.
Q:
What makes you laugh no matter what?
A:
Kevin Hart.
Q:
What does creativity mean to you?
A:
Creativity is getting inspiration and having that lightning bolt idea moment and then having the hard work ethic to sit down at the desk and write it down.
Q:
I found out that Nicole Kidman swim with sharks. What's the most adventurous thing you've ever done?
A:
Watching Shark week.
Q:
What's your favorite lyrics of all time?
A:
I had some dreams / they were clouds in my coffee
from You're So Vain by Carly Simon.
Q:
What one song you wish you had written?
A:
The Friends theme song because those were royalties.
Q:
What's the great fan moment that comes to mind?
A:
I'll be driving down the street and I'll see a kid walking down the street with my shirt on from my tour and Ill just stop my car and say "Hey, Nice Shirt!"
Q:
Most memorable career moment so far?
A:
I think filming the Bad Blood video was my favorite memory.
Q:
What's one accomplishment you're most proud of?
A:
My grammys.
Q:
What's something you've always wanted to try but you are too scared to do?
A:
Oh, Coachella.
Q:
What's your spirit animal?
A:
A dolphin because they are very social. They travel in groups.
Random guy:
My wife and I's anniversary is coming up, where should I take her?
A:
Congratulations and you should take her to Big Sur.
Interviewer:
What advice would you give to anyone who wants to become a singer?
A:
Get a good lawyer.
Q:
Any pre-show rituals?
A:
I stretch. I warm up my voice. Then my band and the dancers and I get in a huddle and it's just good vibes.
Q:
What's the most difficult song to perform on stage and why?
A:
This song I wrote called The Best Day that is about my mom. It's just hard to sing because it makes me so emotional.
Q:
How many cats are in this room?
A:
Probably more than 10, and I don't know if you're counting the one that's alive down there.
Q:
If you were a cat, would you get along with your cat?
A:
Probably not. They would probably not think I'm cool.
Q:
How many cat breeds can you name in 10 seconds?
A:
British Shorthair, Scottish Fold, Himalayan, Exotic Shorthair, Exotic Longhiar, Sphnyx cat, Munchkin, uh...Siamese. Um..the..the... *times up* I can do so much better than that.
Q:
What's the coolest thing in this room?
A:
The coolest thing in this room I think is the fireplace.
Q:
If you could raid one woman's closet, who would it be?
A:
Blake Lively.
Q:
What's your favorite fashion trend of all time?
A:
High-waisted stuff.
Q:
Besides your phone and wallet, what's the couple must have items?
A:
I have this lavender anti bacterial hand spray. Whenever me and my friends are in a public bathroom, we have to wait in line at the sink to wash our hands. I'm like, "No! check it out" *makes spraying sounds* and everybody was like, "Thanks girl!"
Q:
Can you tell me what you'd be wearing to this year's Met gala?
A:
I'm going to be dress as a robot and I'm gonna carry a sword.
Q:
My little cousin Julia wants to know, what did you want to do with your life at age 5?
A:
When I was 5, I knew that my dad was a stockbroker but I did not know what a stockbroker was yet I walk around telling people "I'm gonna be a stockbroker when I grow up."
Q:
What's the one thing you wish you knew at 19?
A:
If I could talk to my 19-year-old self, I’d say, hey you know, you’re gonna date just like a normal 20-something should be allowed to, but you’re going to be a national lightning rod for slut shaming.
Q:
What's something you will not be doing in 10 years?
A:
I'll be 36. I really hope that I'm not stressed about the idea of approaching 40. I hope that aging is not something that really freaks me out.
Q:
What do you think is the most important life lesson for someone to learn?
A:
Karma is real.
Q:
What can you say in other language?
A:
I can count to ten in German *counts from one to ten in German*
Q:
What do you love most about the town where you grew up with?
A:
I grew up on Wyomissing, Pennsylvania and I like the fact that it has a lot of historic buildings.
Q:
What's the bravest thing you've ever done?
A:
Writing the Apple Music letter.
Q:
Most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
A:
Writing the Apple Music letter.
Q:
What's one goal you are determined to achieve in your life time?
A:
I really want an honorary doctorate degree because Ed Sheeran has one and I feel like he looks down on me now because I don't have one.
