Portraits of Country Music's Top Stars
Taylor Swift
Was there a moment when you knew you had to be a country musician?
The first time I saw Faith Hill on TV in her video for "The Kiss." I was about 9 years old. The way that I felt, watching her on brightly colored flowers singing a song I couldn't get out of my head, I knew.
If you could thank God in person for one thing, what would it be?
For putting ideas in my head that I turn into songs. A lot of times I come up with a song, and I don't know how it comes to me; it just happens. God helps me filter the ideas into a 3½-minute song. My best songs were written in less than 15 minutes. I wrote "Love Story" about a guy I never even kissed in 25 minutes on my bedroom floor.
Favorite songs:
"You're So Vain," Carly Simon
"One," U2
"You Were Mine," Dixie Chicks
"Breathe," Faith Hill
"Can't Tell Me Nothin'," Tim McGraw