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Media > Transcripts > The Paul O'Grady ShowTaylor appeared on the Paul O'Grady show while in London on May 8th, 2009.  Paul: It's time now for my first guest. Aged 11 she persuaded her parents to move to Nashville to pursue her dream of becoming a Country music star. And unlike so many, her dreams really did come true. She signed her first record deal aged just 14 and had her first American top 10 hit aged just 15. This year her first single topped the charts and I'm sure her new one will do the same. It's taken from her hit album which is called Fearless, and it's called Teardrops on my Guitar. Raise the roof for Taylor Swift! *Taylor performs Teardrops on my Guitar* Paul: Ladies and Gentlemen, Taylor Swift! Sit yourself down Taylor! That was lovely, absolutely Lovely Taylor. Taylor: Thank you so much! *Audience shouts "We love you Taylor!"* Taylor: I love you more! It's so good to be here. I brought you some presents because I'm so happy you're having me, it's so awesome. These are for Buster! Paul: Oh! Look at this, dog biscuits from a very posh shop. Taylor he's spoiled as it is! Aw that's so sweet of you thank you very much. What is in here? Taylor: It's a new collar! Paul: Ah! He needs one. That's fantastic, "Hug me I'm famous". *Audience laugh* Paul: Actually I'm going out tonight, I think I will wear it instead! Ah that's really nice. Thank you very very much. Isn't she nice? Taylor: Thank you. Paul: That was a lovely song. Tell me, because I'm going to deal with them for you, who has caused you to sing teardrops on your guitar? Who has done this to you? Taylor: Well actually, I wrote the song when I was about 15, when I was in highschool. Paul: When you were 15? Taylor: Uh, yah. So I wrote this song about a guy I had a crush on. And, uh, he didn't know. Inevitably he knows now! *Audience and Paul laughs* Taylor: And y'know I have this habbit of writing songs about guys and naming them. I can't seem to stop doing that. Paul: Don't they get worried. Don't the guys go "Oh, there's going to be a song written about me by tomorrow morning!" Taylor: Well, y'know, I've thought about that. I'm like "Oh guys aren't going to ever wanna date me, at all ever". But you know, if guys don't want me to write bad songs about them then they shouldn't do bad things. Paul: Exactly, they should treat you right. It's revenge, isn't it? A dish best served cold, or on a guitar. *Taylor laughs* Paul: Where did the inspiration for Love Story come from, because that's a really lovely song, it really is. Taylor: Thank you! That was actually about a guy that I didn't actually officially date. *Audience laughs* Paul: You didn't actually officially date him? Taylor: No, not actually officially. But, you know it's like you're about to date that person. I call them "nominees". You know when you're not officially dating them, you're considering them. They're nominees! Paul: Be warned fellas, be warned! Paul: Do you believe that every Country star has to have her heart broken before she can sing the songs. Taylor: I don't know. For me, I just have always been fascinated by human emotion and how we treat eachother. And sometimes, some songs that I wrote really early on were not about getting my heart broken necessarily because I was 12.. *Audience and Paul laughs* Taylor: But, they were about y'know.. going to school and everybody else just doesn't really talk to you that day or something like that. I think in some way you have to be able to feel emotion in order to convey it. But y'know.. heartbreak helps! Paul: God, you're smart as a whip you are. Taylor: Thank you! Paul: Which Country stars do you admire? Who do you really admire? Taylor: Uh, Shania Twain and Dolly Parton are my favorites. *Audience cheers* Paul: Do you like Loretta Lynn? Taylor: Oh I love Loretta Lynn. Paul: And me, I do. I love her. With Conway Twitty when she sings "You're the Reason our Kids are Ugly". Have you heard that one? It's the most fantastic song. How do you feel when people compare you to Dolly Parton? Taylor: Thats a really awesome compliment because Dolly has a catalogue of songs that she's written, that's over 800 songs. And she's really, really witty, she's got a quick wit. I heard a story about her once. There's always that moment in your concerts when you're playing an acoustic song or something, it's a really quiet moment and some guy at the back is like "Marry me!" you know? And I heard a story about Dolly one time, she was doing a show and she was really trying to have the audience pay attention and it was quite a slow song and this guy in the back goes "I love you Dolly!" and uh, she just looked up from her song and said "I thought I told you to say in the truck!" *Audience and Paul laughs* Paul: On the ball, that woman! Taylor: Just *clicks fingers* really quick. And I have just loved her ever since I heard her music. Paul: Yeah, I'm a Dolly fan. You couldn't not be a Dolly Parton fan though, how can anybody not like Dolly Parton? She's wonderful isn't she? She really is. Taylor: She's amazing. Paul: But you're like her because you're a singing story-teller. Your songs tell a story. Taylor: Thank you! That's awesome. Paul: Well that's why I like Country songs. Because you have a beginning, a middle and an end. They're lovely. Aren't they? They're usually about heartbreak and two cigarettes and an ash-tray. Taylor: Yeah. *laughs* Paul: Have you heard that song? Taylor: That's what all my songs are about actually! *audience laughs* Paul: I want to know, how did you persuade your parents to go to Nashville? At such a young age. Taylor: Uh, persistant begging. Paul: *laughs* did you hassle them! Taylor: It worked pretty well though. When I was 10 I saw this TV program about Faith Hill, and said y'know, when Faith Hill was 19 or so she moved to Nashville and that's how she got into Country music. So, I had this epiphany when I was 10. I was like.. I need to be in Nashville. That is a magical dream world where dreams come true, I need to be there. And so that's when I started on my daily begging rant with my parents of "I need to go to Nashville, please please please take me to Nashville. I need to go!". And so eventually they took me on a trip there, when I was 11. Paul: And that was it, and you stayed? When did you actually move to Nashville? Taylor: When I was 13. Paul: 13? Taylor: Yeah, I moved when I was 13 and that's when I got signed. When I was 14 I got signed as a professional song writer. So I had a job in Nashville then. Paul: And did you go alone at 13, to Nashville? Taylor: No, my family is amazing. And they've always been so behind my dreams. Paul: I was gonna say, they're really supportive aren't they? They sound like nice people. Taylor: They're awesome. Paul: Yeah, take you off to Nashville. And how did you feel when you first got to Nashville? Did you think "this is it!"? Taylor: Well, I felt like. For me, I've never felt like I was actually gonna get there. I think, when I was a little kid I was so used to going to talent shows and all the other kids would walk around and introduce themselves to you and they'd be like "Hi I'm Shelby I'm gonna be famous!" *Audience and Paul laughs* Taylor: Y'know? And I was just never like that. And so, I didn't think that this was going to happen to me. I moved to Nashville and I tried to work as hard as I could and I spent all my time thinking about music and music only but, I never actually thought this was gonna work. Paul: And it did. Look how it went. Taylor: It's pretty crazy. *Laughs* Paul: Were you always so focussed? And so committed about a career. Did you always know, "that's it I'm going to sing"? Taylor: Well, when I was younger I thought I was going to be a stock broker, 'cause that's what my Dad does. But then I found what I love to do. And I feel so lucky to have found that at such a young age. Because, music has been what's fascinated me since I was a little kid. Paul: Do you know what I find remarkable? I read in a newspaper that you used to practice your guitar so much your fingers bled. Taylor: I did actually do that, which made me really popular at school. Going to school and I've got like bandaids on my fingers and they're like "she's weird!" *Audience and Paul laughs* Taylor: Ummm. But you know, I found something that I couldn't put down. When I was 12 years old that's when I started playing guitar. Because a guy came over to fix my computer and he had a guitar with him. And he was like "Hey, wanna learn guitar?" and I was like "yah!" Paul: And that was it, from that moment. Taylor: Uh, from that moment on I learned 3 chords that night and wrote my first song. Paul: Unbelievable isn't it? I think I'm just gonna skulk away now and sit in a corner, no really! Taylor: Aww! Paul: Look we've got a clip here of you aged 12, are you ready for this? Taylor: Ooh. Paul: Yep, this is Taylor singing aged 12. Bert if you would please! *Clip of Taylor singing is shown* Paul: That's remarkable, Taylor! Taylor: Thank you! Paul: Have you ever been nervous at all, Taylor? Taylor: I was in that video! Paul: You don't look it! Taylor: Thank you! Paul: You look like you haven't got a bother! Doesn't she? "I'll just get the mic and I'll go up and do this". Do you ever get nervous before you go on stage? Because you're working to huge crowds now aren't you. Taylor: Sometimes I get nervous before I do like an award show performance or things like that but it's gotten so much better, the more you do it the less you get nervous about it. Going on stage, like I'm on my headlining tour in the US right now and it's.. Paul: I've seen your tour list. It's just endless. Taylor: It's so much fun and you never get nervous before those shows because it's just a blast. Paul: But it's all one nights here all over the States isn't it all over the place. Taylor: Yeah it's a 55 city tour. So it's pretty extensive. Paul: Have you got one of these fabulous sort of winnebagos that you tour around in? One of these huge tour buses? Taylor: We've got tour buses! Paul: Yeah. I hope you've got the chandelier and all the good country, like Tammy Winnet. She had the chandelier didnt she. Taylor: Yeah I have a chandelier, it's not exactly hanging because I have these nightmares that y'know it'll fall off and kill me. But it's it's a really nice bus I bought it last year. It's like the one thing I've bought. Paul: Good for you, that's what I want here. A caravan with a chandelier. Where did you get the performing bug, are any of your family performers? Taylor: Well my Grandparents on both my Mom's and my Dad's sides were performers and on my Dad's side all of his parents.. they wrote songs and played piano and stuff, and my Mom's Mom was an opera singer. So, my parents kind of grew up with music being shoved down their throats and kind of ran as far away from music as they could because their parents were so obsessed with it. And then I came along! And they had to deal with it all over again. Paul: Now I've heard that, this album, you're going to get a tattoo after the success of this album? Please, tell me it's not true. Taylor: Well y'know. I said that when I put out my first album in the States, when I was 16. I was like "If my album sells 3 million copies y'know I'm gonna get a tattoo on my foot". And then, because I didn't think it was going to at all. Paul: And it did. Taylor: Yeah, it did. And.. *laughs* Paul: So did you get the tattoo? Taylor: Well, I was thinking about it, 'cause the album sold like 4 million copies and I was like. Thanks guys by the way! *Audience laughs and cheers* Taylor: And um, my Dad was talking to me, he was like "so, I heard you're going to get a tattoo" and I was like "well I'm thinking about it" and he goes "alright, you get a tattoo.. I'll take it off for you with a belt sander." *Audience laughs* Taylor: And I was like, note to self: not gonna do that. Paul: Don't get a tattoo! Taylor: Yeah. Paul: I've got something for you. That is much better than a tattoo, seriously. And I'll tell you what it is. Your album, Fearless, right are you ready for this? Has been selling like hot cakes here in the UK! It's done more than well and I'm extremely proud to present you with your first UK Gold Disc! Here you go! *Audience screams and cheers* Taylor: Oh my God! Oh my god! Thank you so much! Paul: I'm delighted! And it's well deserved! Taylor: Oh my God thank you so much! Paul: Ladies and gentlemen let's hear it, the lady herself, Taylor Swift! *Audience cheers and applauds* Taylor: Wow! Paul: Congratulations! Taylor: Thank you! Paul: You're welcome, you're welcome! Taylor: Woah, that's awesome! Thank you so much you guys! Paul: Ah, that's warmed me up that! Back >> Home |
 
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