hello
its Taylor I just want to say hi
and I've been seen
MySpace and Facebook and Twitter you guys have
questions even asking questions and I want answer all view
answer to be like midsummer to
are you guys doing and miss you we've been off the road for a few months and i
miss u terribly
so bad but it's been a really awesome some and
so I wanna spend some time just can't talk to you guys in
answers your questions I receive you guys a chance ass
someone's and kinda going down the list and I am
this one will start this one from Sarah
from Wisconsin says how's my summer going
and I am my summer is going awesome summer has been
ninety-nine percent focused on the record and
1 percent focused on the fact that actually just
my first place like am officially
I'm so excited I've been as you know I've been
constantly talking about how I've been like
anti shopping and just like nonstop
planning in doing construction on this place is finely
finished so it's been really awesome just
like figuring out what it's like to be on your own
cokie and I'm having such a blast
so that's been really awesome and then there's also been some
new album stuff and buy some you on Sep mean
a lot staff it's been taking up all my time and energy and effort thinking and
I can't wait to talk to you I can't wait to tell you
case in the next question
says when will I be in Chicago next
next door well happen most likely after the next
so arm I guess I should probably tell you
when that would be shouldn't from
next album will be out october twenty-fifth
so excited I'm so
so excited arm and so that's one detail to the whole big picture
what is good right now there's also the fact that
the album is called because I just saw that
what's next called it's called speak now
and
that pertains to the album as a concept
and and as an entire team
the record more than I can even tell you the album
I've been working on it for two years so ever since we put our fearless
writing for this record sort of conceptualizing
putting it together my head as to what I want it to be I like to take a lot of
time in between albums to work up the next one
to see what it is so
we did the same thing for fearless like you put two years in between
and it gives you enough time for me
i right everything with
so you got yourself a little time to live a lot of things you can ride
things I'm and my only
option is to ride lives so
thankfully in the past two years I've experience a lot of things that
actin dying to read
and a lot of things that I wanted to say in the moment
did you know my you have a lot of
situations that pop-up
and people that come into your life and sometimes you don't get to tell them
what you wish you would have told
and this album is my opportunity track by track
each song is a different confession two different person
and I'm very excited so
where am i right now I'm national right now
and I am I've been here like
I'll go a few different places to recording
the record like which is recorded live streams
on-the-record the full orchestra and
that was amazing that took place in LA now we're back in nashville
so that's where I am right now
what's the first single the song
from for single a record is called mine
and its a song that
is about kind my tendency to run from
been sorta recent tendency and
I think it's because for me
every really direct
example had me
has ended and has and breakup
things like that and so I think I've develop this pattern
sort running away when it comes time to follow
and to stay in a relationship and the song is
sort of about finding exceptions and
finding someone who would make you believe in love and
realize that it could work out because
and never ever going to go past
hoping that look I was going to be very helpful
blindly optimistic comes to even if
it does seem like it's really something is very hard
I can refer here we shot the video on it's not a question that I just
Tom is what were the pictures that we saw from maine
that was a shooting the video
so you may have seen pictures that online because
there are people with cameras and stuff so
we shot the video in Portland Maine which was the most beautiful place I've
ever been
it was gorgeous I loved it absolutely found with
I had heard people talk about have to go to main
and I was also quotes
main islamic why people that so much and its
because it's amazing and gorgeous I went there
and I got to spend two or three days just
falling in love with it when I am
I'm old and I have silver hair
way now which one some some shade like that
arm I wanna live in Maine had a house and make necklaces or something
Havelock ass its discontents it's a whole fancy
me so at least I know I'm and
I this okay Katie says who did you write the songs with
I wrote the songs with arm
actually wrote all the songs by myself in this wreck I didn't have any
coroner's
did really happen on purpose
it just sort of happened happen that way
I get my best ideas at 3am
Arkansas did call writer am so I would just finish it
and then that will happen again in New York in happen again in Boston
I would happen again in Nashville and it just so happened that the songs that
made the cut for the album
with the ones I rose by myself so
which Mac the album we
Nathan Chapman could produce this record again
working with him is so amazing and so natural
we have so much fun some glad to be back with my red-headed producer
on this record it's been a real blast we made a lot of the album
in nathan's basement so
I'd say like maybe maybe sixty percent
the album record just in his basement studio
and then of course just some the National musicians and I'm so
so happy my
my band played on the record to it's just
it's really cool to have bunch of different musicians really excited about
being on this record
questions when is a single come
the single will be out mid-august
actually so in about a month your hear the song
and I'm really I'm excited about you hearings
County she think
I'm really proud I say
sparks fly house in the ass about sparks fly arm
this a question I've been seeing a lot actually on Facebook and stuff
sparks fly is a song that I routes
a few years ago and played in concert and you guys
have like have learned
and I think like it which I which makes me really happy and
when we did the the 13 army Greek at CMA Fest that was a comment that I kept
getting over and over again
you guys saying so what about sparks fly
gonna be on the next record what's going on with it and
yes it's gonna be on the next album and I'm I'm as excited as
as you guys have been you know asking the questions
and thank you for having interest in that song its
really awesome I really appreciate it when you guys pay such close attention
and have played that song
like maybe one or two shows and you guys just jumped on it
really made it something that I had to put on the album
because you guys really
showed interest in it and that's my favorite things tell me what you like
thinking feeling and
so yes that will be on
all over the world this question from South Africa
all over the world will be released the same day
so October 25th is the day just
everywhere girl miss the global day snarling
I know sometimes there varying days
which is understandable because they're time zones
in varying countries world this is actually
just today so try to keep it simple
lot dates to eyes how many songs on the new album
I'm thinking think
14 so that's one more than
having written over the last two years and you know what I what I would do
like during making albums my favorite thing to do
is to make a list of what the album
would be as I keep writing even when I'm just
in the beginning stages writing got like three songs
list I still make a list I've what track
listing which would be one two or three
and then you keep writing more songs keep writing more songs
said you got a list like 25 songs
what I would do is i'll keep bumping
of songs that I felt I had out and
knock them off the list so that you keep updating this lesson as you keep writing
more songs
you your list gets better and better and better and I did that so many times I
can count
so I'm really excited about the list
some said thought long and hard about it
and that's what I've been doing nonstop
some rights it's been a process two years writing
recording and just coming through it
just picking it apart putting it back together
and I'm just really excited
territory
my favorite summer outfit arm my favorite summer outfit
is definitely the Sun dress have been very much from
my true and deep love some sundresses
organizing my closet the other day which I did for the first time in my new place
which is like
so much fun you'll notice that with me right now every conversation topic
Durex back to my new place cuz I'm just really excited
have drawers with my like socks my
drawers in its its mind really excited about it
so arm my favorite summer of its has to be like
I really like sundresses and I like headbands a lot
I usually just throw on flax a lot because
there on the bottom drawer George my closet
which being super
knox's lakeside my own
place arm so my favorite summer of it is definitely
Sun dress and headband and flax
any advice for first-time songwriters
my advice to first-time songwriters would be you know the person you're
writing the song
first first know that and then write a letter to
like what you would say if you could
cuz you now that's why I listen to music is because it says how I feel
that says what I wish I'd said
when that moment was there
so I would say use direct as you possibly can
need to dial it back later then I guess
against do that for me I think more details the better
more it seems like a journal entry
better more it seems like an open letter better
more true honest really gets where your
meaning the places you were in the times it happened
all the things about our relationship you know
I was talking to someone the other day were talking about how Richard Curtis
is one of my favorite writers he is the guy behind
actually which is I think and I think the best thing about Richard Curtis's
writing
is that when he plays out these relationships and his movies
it's not just a boy and a girl fall in love
and all that its there are all these inside
little mementos each other like
the one relationship in Love Actually
they had inside joke about how she loves Joni Mitchell
and there's little story line
where Mike just all the little jokes that
play out so if you can in your songwriting
be as detailed as possible because for people to relate to it
they may not have the same details in a relationship you had yours but they can
relate
in that they had these little details to their relationship to you
I would say more honesty more details about
more direct what I've been doing spending my time off
well I have really penciled in much time off
I think
you know for me like I just obsessed with being in the studio so that's
what I've been doing lately but I just had the time of category would
fall into like going to antique stores and buying gold frames and
II I like mason jars I got these antique stores and they usually have like
mason jars under the counter and I like to go and buy
asks I think they're really pretty just have around which is really random
now say the words San less Ryan
Bonjour to the French fans
this
what is my favorite memory while on tour
one of my favorite memories
being on tour was we played to stadiums
last leg of the tour and one was in louisiana and
one was and statuettes Boston
just playing plane
Tiger Stadium and USA images it was so wonderful show up to soundcheck
because you showing up to sound check the night before
and you get to play to an empty stadium and my van tonight seaward
we're not used to playing in stadiums and
I don't care if we end up playing 100 stadiums
you know will never get used to it will never get used to the feeling
walking this giant shiny
masses vast space and getting to play songs
it was wonderful and you guys have done Press we get to soundcheck
Stadium next day we get to play in a stadium
so I remember we were standing there on the edge in this
the T shape thrust and we're all standing on the edge
and I'm my brother was on the stage taking pictures
us and I'm we were all looking back at the camera
have that picture and the freemen my wall because that was my favorite
moments on tour
also one of my favorite moments of tour is
I'm running into you guys when you come up and say I saw the show in Dallas
shots of the show in Chicago I saw the show and
Atlanta morning or all the places that we went
so I don't realize just how many places we've been because you're so focused on
the exact place you are when you're there
when you guys come up to me and say that you're at the show
and Iran TR all all over the place
he just comeuppance in the nicest things to me I really appreciate that because I
am
known you guys came and saw the show he saw what we
we put together that really means a lot to me and just his memories
always they always make me smile so it's good
you know say hi hello to Japan
I just said that you guys I'm gonna be there soon so I'm really excited
I
of my favorite kind of coffee arm I really love Starbucks
I'm sort of addicted and so
every like ok different things there right now I really like
I'm going back to what I used to drink when I was like 16
before school I would go again iced caramel latte
because they're good and so also like switch back and forth between that and
then they have a skinny vanilla latte
it's really awesome
nets so artes general answer question
how picking the songs for the album and was it hard to pick the songs
yeah I was because
every song that I write is about some
is about a certain emotion and
so in picking the songs I
you have to be pretty you have to be pretty aware
who is reacting best to which
your songs Mike of my songs for people in my life people like
in my band time for Abigail
a plan for my mom a plan for like people who
I really really trust their opinion and I know they're gonna be completely
honest if they
if they don't like because thats
just as important as someone saying like it so
the ones that get the best reactions on one's own
record for me Mason
was talking about how like me the best song its
it's not you can't be personal has to be personal when I write it
that when it comes to picking them I can't be like
no because that one that once
more special to me like to a certain extent it's made by someone
so I don't get my feelings hurt when it comes to like
picking which one makes the record which one doesn't because
I tend to like the ones the best the %ah like the past
sort impressionable
when it comes to you guys tend to gravitate towards
the questions
really fast and so I can what's my favorite food
okay well I love cooking
I've always loved baking right now like obsessed with cooking so
I've been getting all kinds cookbooks and I'm
and I posted a picture of Chris massive
like how many cookbooks I got my birthday
because every everybody knows like all my friends now to Kirk
and so I have this entire book shelf books in my place
and i really like reading contests etc
xn you know when you go into the stores and there's just like
make great sandwiches you like to buy says i buy this
thank Mike a book I've 100
ways to make cupcakes thats I'm I love that
so basically anything that I can
kinda like get from a cookbook and improvise with
like I get the basic recipe from Cup
get the idea for an office I wonder what would happen if add this to it so
there's that also I really like right now
I'm always like Japanese
I think that's me
to enacting plans right now no right now
on doing is just focusing on the record
making sure everything the way
I want cuz we're down to like the final
faces just wrapping things up and perhaps been so focused on
have really felt like much else making this is
as good as I can make it and
as far as like acting blast acting
in the things that I've got to do Valentine's Day was so much fun
and oh and that reminds me thank you so much for
everything you guys have been doing really like the Teen Choice Award
nominations
that was so cool that was an awesome day like
you guys just you so good to me its
we cuz we got for inbound pass a first-team choice or nominations awesome
categories I just
I really appreciate as this yr things you guys
make me feel so so
incredibly thankful was I saying
Valentine's Day oh and I also have to be in CSI what you guys know like obsessed
with
so I was really find another the two acting things and i got to do
and I'm I would love to be in a movie
at some point just not my I'm so immersed in what I love the most and I
can't think about anything else
and that's kind of where I am right now I'm so immersed in the record it's
pretty hard to
think about anything else said own were gonna meet warning
world gonna be little busy after this comes out I'm
I want to come see all you and that's good
take a lot of traveling so I'm ready for
said hikes my official Italian form
I'm us a song about my personal life nothing is a don't really talk about my
personal life
interviews but I definitely think so I
yeah I definitely think me
very so sex
thank you for saying bands that's really nice
arm really like really like
reasons and rosen things Center just
noxious Lee like cue like girly where you know I've had dances like I'm going
to craft store and i buy
ribbons because they're like you just you know they have like the big schools
everything's
you know we all and you just like taken you like you can sit like to give you
sample
like however many much need and it's really affordable
and their really also like have met like any kind
Mike hobby art store but
Mike anthropology has awesome headbands Urban Outfitters has awesome
Sam thank you for saying
Heights members million fans yes
where's my hometown my hometown is I'm Reading Pennsylvania
and I grew up on a farm it was is a Christmas tree farm now so that's why
I'm sort of obsessed with Christmas
yeah I really love Christmas
which around just like for the feeling
has increased by desperation there's some feeling about it but I think the
fact that I love it so much is probably because I
Christmas tree and international when I was 14 so I've been here ever since I
absolutely love it here I'm as fall in love with a few places
in my life got to see a lot of places and
national is Machu
I love it's just an amazing place
I'm just really very lucky
and high change from Tasmania I'm
room decorating advice for me like my
house is very mismatched so I don't like to match things I like them to be
Mike a little bit of so that's just my advice is
is if you're going for that the my some people have like really
very clean and modern look to things
and you if you do not have any prime mismatch everything
but for me I just kind of wanted look like a pirate ship slash
Alice in Wonderland slash an old antique store slash
like fortune tellers house
slash treehouse slash
cage slash and guarding
slash she's mismatched place
so so I
mismatch things and that's just
wise 30 my favorite number don't get me started I'm obsessed with 13
I had so many 13 happened to me today I was on the way downstairs from my place
and the floor stopped 413
which was awesome because I was on the way to the studio to go close make some
for single
and then we were in the studio Nate and I were talking about how
Nathan Chapman has thirteen letters and and
just a new bank mixer has 13 miners and his name
and all things that might happen that have 13 to do
then 13
is absolutely just pops up and i cant control
its always there when things are Mike
good things are happening so it's like a good
I guess for some people they think it's like
for me it's sorta this really good thing
when I see it it just means that means that
everything's okay I help that's when
because I C
hello to Denmark
yes I would love to come that's on my list of places that I've always ago
i've seen so many movies and and I just
percent yes
love to go to were talking about
now we've had a lot of scheduling meetings lately
so there been a lot of meetings were discussed
people all the places I really wanna go and
there are a lot of places we're gonna go the store so
really stepped
how was I have from Taylor Swift thing that was so much fun
I don't know if you guys signee this but there were two guys from Auburn
University
who did this entire online website thing
where they were campaigning to get hug from me which was really sweet
and so I started releasing videos to them
challenging them to do things and then they would release these videos back
complete challenge and actually showing up
and coming to their school and show from my friends and surprising
so that was really fun and I actually
I've ended up seeing them a couple the times because you know
del like invite them to certain things certain functions
it's been really cool cuz like there's such a great group for people like
like Ryan Michael friends and everything so
and they gave me a shirt that says I have which I thought
worsen the most memorable thing the fan is urging I'm so many awesome guess from
you guys and I
I love them so much I hope you know that you give me the coolest presence
and I have this entire dedicated
my house is one office
I keep everything so thank you for the caps
and one on my feet things that I got was actually a lot of view that
helped put this together but there was
the puzzle piece project where there where
there were these puzzle pieces that
skew fans organized Mike
each one of them made one and they were all over the world
and they put so much effort into it their all these glittery
artistic puzzle pieces and every time
it seems like every time I turned around show sandwich shop
meeting give me puzzle pieces and I kept him and down
when it got to the end of the puzzle
like after the 15-month tour is over
I had all these puzzle pieces I put them together and me the cheapest
shiet heart and so I decided to
the other day I did this actually this giant canvas
painted the canvas and then
good the puzzle onto the canvas I'm getting Frank
place thank you guys
was my favorite place to shop
I really like antique stores because Mike
antique stores that are sort of like warehouses where
bunches staff or Michael
antique store that's been around for years because and they just have really
interesting things in there and the people who were
have a cam was really interesting cool stories
and I have like and I finally
things really interesting stores like that have like box
pictures usually on the counter these black-and-white pictures
it's like I love looking through old pictures
you can find a lot of those an antique stores and of course I mason jars
you might by if you have those candles in
I love candles my candles that smell good
love shopping my favorite things to buy
good sweetie yes I can't wait really excited
might be doing
greets I do mean reason every show cell I do
before and after usually because we have the Tea Party's
we go so they're mean Greece before and after every single show
and then we we did 15 actually ended up in 15 hours
it was supposed to be a thirteen-hour meeting 3 at
CMA Fest said that was really wonderful I had so much fun with you guys there
thank you to everybody who showed up and everybody was watching like
that was one of the coolest days mind I
stories that I got just wonderful
motion I got to see that day and filling up an entire
arena with y'all Richard you just traveled so far
getting to do the show in the middle of the signing is really wonderful
which like I had so much you guys
so that was a really wonderful time so yeah
we do you mean greats like that all the time Mike before the show's
not all the last 13 hours should I would you know I loved it so much
again 3
so I would really I would
because it was just really sort unforgettable thing
happy birthday to kiss you in the rain yes I can't wait to go way
and actually
it's time to wrap up I'm really excited I got to talk to you guys in
answers to the questions I've been dying tell you about the Iraq
just absolutely so excited about it so
arm thank you for hanging out with me today I really appreciate it and
I'm comes out october twenty-fifth can't we
here the first thing which comes out next month I can't believe it's
happening this fast I'm just I'm really excited nice
staff thanks for Spanier time
military I love you guys so much thank you for everything