Taylor Swift On The Cover Of Glamour Magazine
Country star Taylor Swift covers Glamour magazine's July 2009 issue talking about dating and relationships, success at a young age, and where she sees herself in the future.To read the full interview click here. But her are the highlights:
Glamour: You have said, “Music is my boyfriend.” How do you date when you’re as famous as you are?
TS: I don’t date a lot. The other day I was in my dressing room with one of my closest friends, [American Idol alum] Kellie Pickler, who is also my opening act, and she said something really interesting to me: “We can only give someone what’s left over.” She does the same thing I do, so she knows what it’s like to do interviews all day and give your heart and soul on stage every night. After all of that is taken, we can only give someone what’s left. So it’s hard.
Glamour: What would a relationship look like for you?
TS: It’s always going to be long-distance, even if I date the boy who lives next door to me in Nashville. I’ll be flying to see him and flying him places to see me. It feels like it would involve more scheduling, and I already deal with a lot of scheduling in my life. Of course, if I met somebody who was worth it, I would probably stop thinking that way!
Glamour: What sets you apart from other young women who’ve achieved success at a young age, then gone on to blow it with partying and bad behavior?TS: I’ve never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Sometimes people look at me like, You’re 19 and don’t want to rebel? For me, rebelling is done with words: I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do.
Glamour: What about doing normal teen stuff?
TS: I don’t think I’d be a party girl [even if I were] in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom. But there are certain things that I would like to do but can’t. Sometimes I don’t get invited to things because my friends know it’s going to be a hassle to take me.
Glamour: Do you ever feel like you’ve missed out on having a childhood?
TS: No, because I couldn’t have asked for more from my childhood. My mom quit working when I was four, so she was always around, and my dad is just hilarious—you’ll meet him. [I later found Swift’s father riding a Segway scooter around the arena parking lot, handing out guitar picks that bore his daughter’s image.] I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair.
Glamour: And what are your top three craziest, pinch-yourself moments?TS: Definitely performing on Saturday Night Live. I got to meet Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg, who are some of my favorite people. Playing the Houston Rodeo for 72,000 people. Every one of them had a ticket stub with my name on it. And doing the cover of Rolling Stone. I never expected that would happen in my lifetime, and I definitely didn’t think it would happen when I was 19!
Glamour: Wow, what’s left?
TS: I still have lots of goals. I’d love to do a world tour. And at some point, I’d like to move out of my parents’ house! [Laughs.]
Glamour: And after that? What kind of life do you picture 10, 20 years from now?
TS: As far as my career goes, I hope I’m still touring. I’d love to always be present in music, writing songs, but I’m not the kind of person who will hang around if I become irrelevant. I’ll bow out gracefully, raise my kids and have a garden. And I’m going to let my hair go gray when I’m older—I don’t need to be blond when I’m 60!
