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.
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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.
