”For this song I would love it if you could have your cell phones and glow sticks, or anything sparkly that you might have… hold them up for me! And I would love it if you would sing along with this song, because this is the first song you ever heard from me.”

Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw working out backstage on Ellen

“I wrote the song Tim Mcgraw when I was in 9th grade and I was dating a guy who was about to go off to college and i just knew that it wasn’t gonna last and then we’re gonna end up breaking up, i got this idea in math class, this melody “when you think Tim Mcgraw” and it just kept going on and on in my head and it wouldn’t stop so i got up and left class and I went to the bathroom and record a voice demo into my phone” - taylor swift.