Taylor Swift has revealed the mantra she relies on whenever she feels overwhelmed.
In a recent interview with Recording Academy chief executive officer, Harvey Mason Jr., for the organisation's Icon Sessions series, the music superstar opened up about the way she manages being in the public eye.
"I go through several processes and coping mechanisms that I've gone through over the years," she said. "And one of them is saying, 'You chose this. You chose this every day. You could have opted out of this any day before it got unmanageably big.' And I decided not to because I love it that much... Everything that comes with this ultimately is worth it as long as I get to still make music."
The Opalite hitmaker went on to recall how in the early days of her career, music executives tried to mould her to appeal to a "certain genre" or demographic.
"I realised that I'm making music because I'm playing for the fans," the 36-year-old continued. "I'm putting this out for people who care about it and who look to music as a way to cope with their life in the way that I did. I think that if you can actually go through all those checkpoints and realise that putting out music you've made that you love so much is not the path to universal validation, if you're still doing it, then you love it for the right reasons."
Elsewhere in the candid conversation, Taylor jokingly discussed the way she handles critics.
"Sometimes when people are mocking me, it's really fun to mock them back. Sometimes I like to just use words that they have to look up in order to talk s**t about," she smiled.
Taylor released her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, last October.
