“I have so much to learn about life,” 22-year-old superstar Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ tells Sunday’s issue of PARADE. “I know nothing compared to what I’m going to know someday.”
The onetime outsider—a songwriting savant bullied سے طرف کی mean girls in junior high and overlooked سے طرف کی the guys she crushed on— has evolved into the ultimate insider, an entertainer Forbes ranked as the highest-paid celeb under 30 this year, with earnings of $57 million. Her fourth album, Red, is a blockbuster that moved مزید than 1 million copies its first week. She has A-list BFFs, a couple of hit movies, and a growing فہرست of high-profile ex-boyfriends (including Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 18-year-old son, Conor). So why can’t تیز رو, سوئفٹ shake the fear that she’ll somehow mess it all up? “I’m scared of this whole thing backfiring,” she admits. “Or chewing me up and spitting me out, and all of a sudden, I don’t love it anymore.”
Here are some highlights from the interview. Check out the full interview with Taylor تیز رو, سوئفٹ in this weekend's issue of PARADE, and go behind the scenes of the star's cover shoot in the exclusive video below.
Despite writing about it so prolifically, تیز رو, سوئفٹ claims not to know much about love.
I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate. How many times has she been in love? I know how many people I’ve کہا ‘I love you’ to. I could probably count it up, but I don’t feel like it. Part of me feels آپ can’t say آپ were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real—because it lasted.
تیز رو, سوئفٹ on the bad boys she often seems drawn to.
There’s a really interesting charisma involved. They usually have a lot to say, and even if they don’t, they know how to look at آپ to say it all. I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
تیز رو, سوئفٹ is the first to admit that her romances tend to develop—and end—rather swiftly.
I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, یا at medium speed. I either do یا I don’t. I don’t think it through, really, which is a good thing and a bad thing. آپ don’t look before آپ leap, which is like, ‘Yay, this is awesome! Let’s not think twice!’ And then you’re like, ‘We used to be flying. Now we’re falling. What’s happening?’
On the difficulty of living in the public eye.
I don't know necessarily how much privacy I’m entitled to, but I know I don’t get much of it. At the same time, I asked for this. I could be playing in a coffee house. I’d be happy doing that, [but] not as happy, probably. Knowing that people are going to hear the موسیقی I make is the most amazing feeling. Knowing that there are dudes waiting outside my house with cameras, hiding in the bushes, is a less awesome feeling.