Taylor Swift on Dating, Her Next Album and Why She Won't Comment on Katy Perry

It's been a big year for Taylor Swift. Despite only being released at the end of October, the pop star's record-breaking album, 1989, went on to become the biggest selling album of 2014 - with its lead single, Shake It Off, sitting at number one in iTunes across a staggering 64 countries.In the wake of the album's success, the pop star sat down with the UK Telegraph for an exclusive interview that left little off-bounds. From industry pressure and her fans to her famous friends and of course, her well-documented love life, here's 9 things we learnt from the 25-year-old.On the pressure of living up to her last two album sales:“For the last two albums I’d sold one million copies in a week, and I knew people were waiting to see me not hit that number and then diagnose the music industry as dying or dead. Which is a lot of pressure to put on one artist and one album.”

On her famous friend posse:

“The thing about my girlfriends right now is that none of them needs me for anything other than friendship. I love the fact that they are all passionate about their jobs, whatever their jobs are. A lot of celebrity-type people have this group of people around them where their friends’ main priority is them, and they feel comfortable with that dynamic. I don’t feel comfortable with that dynamic.”

On writing breakup songs:

“There was a bit of a reputation for having a lot of boy-bashing songs. Which is a sexist way of saying heartbreak songs. To trivialise someone who’s heartbroken is really cruel. But people have to simplify things… Everybody’s got busy lives, they don’t have time to form a complex opinion of me and my music. I’m in a different place in my life, where love isn’t really a priority. I haven’t dated anyone in years so there’s less chatter about the serial dater thing. I’m just really excited at an awards show when they don’t make some weird joke about my dating life.”

On where she sees herself at 30:

“I’ll probably still be single, let’s be honest. No one’s going to sign up for this and everything that goes with it. Like, ‘Hi, nice to meet you, want a date? Do you love camera flashes? I hope you do!’ I don’t know what’s going to happen if I’m ever content in a relationship – no idea how that’s going to work. I don’t even know if that’s possible with the life I have.”

On dating:

“I used to think it was important to find a boyfriend. But I don’t feel that it is now. I just want to have as much fun and as many adventures as possible.”

On her rumoured feud with Katy Perry:

“I’m not giving them anything to write about.. I’m not walking up the street with boys, I’m not stumbling out of clubs drunk. But I’m never going to talk about her in my interview. It’s not going to happen.”

On her “Swifties”:

“My fans make fun of me – it’s really cool. They have all these Gifs of me making an idiot of myself or tripping and falling on stage. They bring humour back into it for me. I get too serious sometimes – you can probably tell – and they bring me back to like, ‘OK, I’m not really doing anything that difficult. I just need to calm down.”

On sending them presents:

I have to be as good a person [as I can] while my name matters to them. Because it’s not always going to matter to kids who are 15 and really struggling with who they want to be or [because] their friends were brutal to them at school that day. That’s actual turmoil. I have to do everything I can to make their day better while I still can. [Sending presents] is fun for me. If I go a week without sending something, I start to feel sad.”

On her next album:

'I'm not going to put out an album until I've made one that's better than this one and that's going to be really hard."