GLAMOUR: Really? Is that true?
TAYLOR SWIFT: I'll find out that a group of my friends went out to dinner, but they wanted it to be a low-key night and not worry about people coming up to the table every other second and asking for autographs, so they didn't invite me. I can understand that.
GLAMOUR: Do you ever feel like you've missed out on having a childhood?
TAYLOR SWIFT: 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: You once wrote a song about a friend who was struggling with anorexia. Do you ever have body insecurities?
TAYLOR SWIFT: I think the reason a lot of celebrities feel insecure and want to stop eating altogether is because they see so many pictures of themselves on a daily basis. It's unhealthy how many times you see your own image—it's just constant. When you see something enough, you're going to tear it down to the point where some days you feel like you're not even pretty. I get insecure about my eyes because I once read a blog comment that said, "Her eyes are so small." I thought, Are my eyes small? Oh no—they are!
GLAMOUR: So you read blog comments? A lot of celebrities claim to avoid them.
TAYLOR SWIFT: I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second. But I read my MySpace comments because they're awesome. You just have to be careful and filter the information you give yourself. Do you want to open the slam book today? Nope.
GLAMOUR: And what are your top three craziest, pinch-yourself moments?
TAYLOR SWIFT: 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?
TAYLOR SWIFT: 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?
TAYLOR SWIFT: 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!
