Taylor Swift in TIME: 'Before Being a Celebrity, I'm a Songwriter'

Taylor Swift is a worldwide superstar with essentially the whole world at her fingertips. Her newest album, ‘1989,’ sold over one million copies in its first week, becoming the highest-selling album in 2014; she was the Top Music Money Maker last year; and she has a slew of famous friends. She is at the top, but unlike most celebrities, Swift doesn’t cling to that status because at the heart of the matter, she says she is a songwriter first and a celebrity second.

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