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Taylor Swift tells Glamour, “I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can't handle.”
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Taylor Swift graces the cover of Glamour magazine. Inside she says, “I don't talk about my personal life in great detail," she says. "I write about it in my songs.”
Taylor Swift's songwriting skills — and her long list of exes — are the stuff good music is made of, but that doesn't mean the singer-songwriter is looking to divulge who her song muses are anytime soon.
"How presumptuous! I never disclose who my songs are about," Swift told the November issue of Glamour in response to John Mayer's claims that her song "Dear John" was about their short-lived relationship.
In the June issue of Rolling Stone, Mayer, 34, had claimed that Swift "humiliated" him by releasing the song — comments that Swift to this day has not heard.
The 22-year-old singer claims to have avoided Mayer's public comments on their relationship altogether, and is adamant about keeping things that way.
"I know it wasn't good, so I don't want to know," she told the magazine. "I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can't handle.
"It's not that I'm this egomaniac and I don't want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check. But I've never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else.
"If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
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Taylor Swift says in the November 2012 issue of Glamour, “If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”
Instead, the country crooner opts to let her songs do the talking, interlacing her lyrics with tales from her own relationship ups and downs.
Her recent single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is one such song. Ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas has come forward to deny that the catchy tune is about him — even though he famously dumped her over the phone.
"I don't talk about my personal life in great detail," she said. "I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through."
And, Swift adds, in the November issue of Maire Claire UK, she shouldn't need to justify her songwriting.
"Well, it's not like it's in fine print," she told the magazine. "But music is absolutely everything that I am and everything that I stand for. It's not my fault if someone gets into a relationship with me and then cheats and I write a song about it."
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