"Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem...."

Source: Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships. Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.