50 Interesting Facts About Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is young, beautiful and talented. Here are 50 interesting facts about this award-winning singer.

1. Her full name is Taylor Alison Swift.
2. Taylor's mom wanted to name her Taylor because if you saw her name on a business card you wouldn't know if it was a boy or girl.
   
3. She was born December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
4. Some of her nicknames are Tay, T-Swift, Swifty, T-Swizzle, T-Sweezy.
   
5. A computer repairman taught her how to play three chords on the guitar when she was 12, and this inspired her to writer her first song "Lucky You”.
6. She is very musical. She can play guitar, banjo, piano, ukulele and electric guitar.
7. At 11-years-old she won a local talent competition singing LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal"
   
8. Taylor knew she need to go to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue her musical dreams after watch a Behind the Music special on Faith Hill.
   
9. She and her family moved to Nashville when she was 14-years-old.
10. Taylor says she almost definitely wouldn't get a real tattoo, as she doesn't think she could commit to any one saying or symbol for the rest of her life.
    
11. Taylor Swift was the first 'Saturday Night Live' host to ever write their own monologue. She chose to write a song for the event called 'My Monologue Song' that included jabs at Joe Jonas and Kanye West, plus a kiss for Taylor Lautner, whom she was dating at the time.
    
12. Taylor lived on a Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    
13. Her family owned a shetland pony and Quarter horses, and she learned English Riding as a kid and even competed in horse shows.
    
14. She wasn't old enough to help secure trees to car roofs, so she was in charge of the bugs -- specifically knocking the praying mantis pods out of the trees. "I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them," Swift told Jay Leno in 2008. "And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill them because that’d be a bad Christmas.”
15. Swift enjoyed both reading and writing poetry and was particularly drawn to the works of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss when she was growing up.
    
16. She remains interested "in any writing from a child's perspective" and has cited To Kill a Mockingbird as one of her favorite books.
    
17. She says Shania Twain is her greatest influence, but is also "devoted" to Britney Spears.
    
18. She played a rebellious teen in an episode of CSI in 2009.
19. In 2012 she voice acted the character of Audrey in The Lorax.
    
20. In 2013 she appeared in an episode of The New Girl.
    
21. She has 7 Grammy Awards, 11 American Music Awards, and 6 Country Music Association Awards.
    
22. She has received two Golden Globe Award nominations.
23. In 2013, she became the second person (and first woman) to receive the Country Music Association's Pinnacle Award.
24. Taylor used Myspace to develop her fanbase, which was unheard of in country music at the time.
    
25. Taylor's favorite TV shows are the crime-dramas “Law and Order: SVU” and “CSI”. She considers herself an expert on the shows, and would want to be a forensic detective if she didn’t have a music career.
26. She is obsessed with iPhone cases, and she loves all the vintage, handmade ones on Etsy.
    
27. Her favorite dessert is cheesecake.
28. Her favorite clothing items to wear is a sundress and a pair of cool cowboy boots.
    
29. Her lucky number is 13.
    
30. Driving scares her, she has been in three accidents.
31. Taylor became obsessed with the hit television series Grey's Anatomy. She became convinced she would name her first daughter Izzie, and when Denny died, she cried for days.
    
32. Taylor wrote a 350-page novel at the age of 12 which has never been published.
33. She has also said that she'd like to write her own biography. "Years from now it would be cool to write a book about all the crazy stuff and the insane things I've gotten to do," Swift says. "My life moves so fast, I have to write it all down, otherwise I can't remember where I was yesterday. I will write my biography for sure."
34. Swift is also a talented painter.
35. Taylor has a younger brother, Austin, who goes to Vanderbilt University and freelances for Getty Images as a photographer in his spare time.
    
36. She has released 4 albums, Taylor Swift, Speak Now, Fearless and Red.
    
37. In 2009 Taylor Swift made country music history by selling more digital downloads than any other country artist, ever. She sold over 20 million hits worldwide.
    
38. Swift is known for “kissing and telling” as she draws inspiration for her songs from past relationships.
    
39. Swift dated singer Joe Jonas from July to October 2008,and actor Taylor Lautner from October to December 2009. She was romantically linked to musician John Mayer from late 2009 until early 2010.She dated actor Jake Gyllenhaal from October to December 2010. Following their break-up, they were seen together in January and February 2011 Swift dated political heir Conor Kennedy from July to September 2012.She dated One Direction singer Harry Styles from October 2012 to January 2013.
    
40. She is close friends with Selena Gomez.
    
41. According to Forbes's Celebrity 100 list, released annually in the month of May, Swift earned $18 million in 2009, $45 million in 2010,$45 million in 2011,$57 million in 2012 and $55 million in 2013.
42. Taylor owns a Dassault Falcon 900 private jet and an airport hangar at Nashville International Airport. (It costs around $40M)
    
43. She owns an eight-bedroom summer home in coastal Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
    
44. Swift bought a four-bedroom mansion in Belle Meade, Tennessee for her parents.
45. Swift lives between a three-bedroom duplex penthouse in Midtown Nashville, Tennessee and a three-bedroom cottage in Beverly Hills, California.
46. Swift opposes LGBT discrimination. Following the 2008 murder of Lawrence King, she recorded a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network PSA to combat hate crimes.
47. In 2012, First Lady Michelle Obama presented Swift with The Big Help Award for her "dedication to helping others" and "inspiring others through action.
    
48. In 2014, she will co-star in the film adaptation of The Giver alongside Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep.
49. When it comes to fashion, Swift favors retro style and it has been said that she has the look of "a nineteen-thirties movie siren ... red lipstick, thick mascara”.
    
50. She has named Françoise Hardy, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Bardot, and Audrey Hepburn as her own style inspirations.
    

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