At just 24, she’s the biggest selling digital artist of all time and her songs have been viewed more than 2.5 billion times online.
But Taylor Swift has admitted that despite the fame and fortune, the anxieties she suffered as a young girl still harass her today.
During an interview with The Project on Tuesday night, the dazzling songstress revealed that everyday she battles with a new anxiety.
‘I always used to think to myself, “if I could just write songs, if I could just get a record deal, if I could just put out an album then I swear I would be happy and I wouldn’t need anything else”.’
‘And I think then you grow up and realise that the same things that you deal with in your childhood affect you when you’re a grown up as well… you know, little kid, little problems – big kid, big problems.’
The Love Story singer was honest in her admission but kept her securities close to her chest, hinting that the rumour mill might have something to do with it.
‘The fact that I get to write songs and put them out into the world and that’s my job, it out-weighs anything people could say about me that isn’t true.’
Taylor made the admission while in Australia promoting her latest album, 1989.
And for the blonde beauty known for writing songs about her former flames, it was a perfect time to speak about the subject matter of her lyrics.
During one interview she said anyone who assumes a track is about one of her ex-boyfriends is ‘purely speculating’.
Speaking to Sydney radio station 2DayFM’s breakfast show on Saturday, the Shake It Off hit-maker said: ‘I have a really strict personal policy that I never name names.’
Explaining the pressures of soaring popularity since her first album at the age of 16, Taylor said more people now feel the right to know what is happening in her personal life.
‘You have more and more people paying attention to what you’re doing and you’ve been doing it the same way your entire time as a songwriter but all of a sudden the perspective has changed,’ she said.
‘And they use you writing songs about your life kind of as a way to play detective.’
