Taylor Swift's Ultra-Rare Quotes About Her Relationship With Brother Austin

Taylor Swift has a famously tight-knit bond with her younger brother, Austin Swift.

Taylor and Austin are the two children of Scott and Andrea Swift, all of whom have had the pop star's back as she navigated both her highly accomplished music career and various personal relationships. The trio strongly embraced Taylor's husband, NFL star Travis Kelce, before the couple's July 2026 wedding at Madison Square Garden.

In fact, Austin even stood up beside his big sister during the ceremony in lieu of a traditional bridal party.

"Taylor and Travis did not have bridesmaids or groomsmen," Taylor's rep told Us Weekly in a statement at the time. "Instead, her brother, Austin Swift, served as Taylor's Man of Honor and [Travis' brother], Jason Kelce, was Travis' Best Man. The ceremony joined both families together."

Keep scrolling to revisit Taylor's comments about her dynamic with Austin through the years:

Holiday Favorites

During a 2012 interview with Parade, Taylor detailed how she and Austin spent the festive holiday season.

"I have a 20-year-old brother, so I like to see the absurd ways that he wraps presents," Taylor told the outlet of her favorite tradition. "It's worse and worse every year. It's, like, garbage bags with duct tape in cardboard boxes with a rope tied around it. It's the most hilarious thing to me because he wraps presents [in] his own special way."

From Siblings to Colleagues

As Taylor pursued a career in the music industry, her brother has been by her side.

"My dad, my mom, and my brother come up with some of the best ideas in my career," she told TIMEin December 2023. "I always joke that we're a small family business."

Two years later, Taylor sent Austin and their mother to negotiate with Shamrock Capital on her behalf about the chance to purchase the masters of her first six albums.

"Rather than send lawyers or management in a big crew, I sent my mom and my brother, who I work with, to L.A.," the singer detailed on Travis' "New Heights" podcast in August 2025. "They sat with Shamrock Capital and they told them what this meant for me. They told them the whole story of all the times we've tried to buy it, all the times it's fallen through, all the times we had gotten plans together and figured out something we thought was going to work and it didn't at the last minute."

Andrea and Austin's mission was successful, and Taylor was able to buy her discography in May 2025 with profits from her Eras Tour.

Childhood Squabbles

While Taylor and Austin are famously close as adults, that wasn't always the case for the pair as children.

"We used to get in absolute battles. It was like psychological warfare every single day," Taylor recalled on Sirius XM's The Morning Mashupin October 2025. "I'd try to annoy him so much that he'd lash out and try to get him in trouble, it was a nightmare, but then he learned all the sounds that annoy me."

She continued, "He learned that if you repeat everything I say back to me when I'm seven years old, that's gonna bother me. Just the sibling stuff that everyone does. But it's crazy, we work together now, and we're best friends. I don't know what year it happened, but we just looked at each other and went like, ‘Truce.' Just know if you have kids and they're at each other's throats constantly, they'll probably grow up to be best friends."

Bonus: Musical Tributes

Taylor has even given Austin shout-outs in a handful of her songs.

"I have an excellent father/ His strength is making me stronger," Swift begins a verse on "The Best Day," which was released in 2008. "God smiles on my little brother / Inside and out he's better than I am."

Decades later, Austin was briefly mentioned on Taylor's album The Life of a Showgirl.

"I had a bad habit / Of missing lovers past," the Grammy winner sings on her "Opalite" track. "My brother used to call it / ‘Eating out of the trash' / It's never gonna last."

"Opalite" ends with Taylor making her own happiness thanks to Travis and their love story.

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This story was originally published July 4, 2026 at 1:44 PM.