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Taylor Swift gets "nervous" when her minders send picture messages of her stalkers.

 

The 22-year-old singer hates talking about her crazed fans because she gets worried they might try to "steal her" one day, and as a result she is "so grateful" for her "amazing" security team for making sure she stays safe.

 

She said: "I get nervous when I have stalker incidents. I try not to talk too much about it because it scares me. Sometimes you get a dude who kind of wants to steal you.

 

"That's why I'm so grateful I have people looking after me, like Dennis [bodyguard]. Over the past couple of years it's got worse. I get told if there's been an attempt or a threat.

 

"My security text me a picture and say, 'Look out for this dude; he's driven across the country, he's off his meds,' or something like that. No one has ever been successful in getting into my house or anything like that. I have an amazing security team."

 

The 'I Knew You Were Trouble' hitmaker - who is currently dating One Direction singer Harry Styles - tries to live her life "in spite" of being stalked rather than dwelling on it, and she admits the situation is simply the "price you pay" for being famous.

 

She told Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "There are a lot of them. I just try to be safe and be conscious of people around me. It's the same with paparazzi; it's something you just have to deal with. It's the price you pay for getting to do what you love.

 

"You can let it take over your life and make you fearful all the time, or you can live your life in spite of it."

On Monday night, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights honored Taylor Swift with its prestigious Ripple of Hope Award for her impressive humanitarian efforts. Judging by firsthand reports and available Getty images, the Manhattan gala was a lovely event M.C.’d by Alec Baldwin and attended by VF.com heartthrob Mandy Patinkin. But there was one curiosity that we noted on Tuesday: Ethel Kennedy, the 84-year-old matriarch who forged a May-December friendship with Swift over the summer and repeatedly championed her to the press, was missing.

 

Today, the New York Post reports that Kennedy, who also happens to be the grandmother of Swift’s former beau Conor, did not attend because she was battling bronchitis. Even though Ethel was not personally present, Swift ensured that her friend was there in spirit by sharing an anecdote about her to the gala guests.

“My great friend Ethel Kennedy is the person who . . . most inspires me to embrace the unpredictable side of life . . . She inspires me to find delight in every new experience.”

Swift described sailing in Hyannis Port with the Kennedys this summer. They went out on Max Kennedy’s boat, and once in the middle of the ocean, the Kennedy kids jumped in the water, grabbing a rope to be dragged by the yacht. Though she had a swimsuit, Swift claimed she wasn’t following because two of her pals forgot theirs. But Ethel told her, “‘Dear, to be that thoughtful you run the risk of being boring. Get in the water.’ So I jumped in, and I had an amazing time,” Swift said.

She added, “Ever since . . . I have decided that to really live, you have to jump in, you have to take chances. You have to embrace the unpredictability of life instead of fearing it. Thank you, Ethel, for teaching me that.”

 

Rounding out her tribute, Swift performed an acoustic rendition of “Starlight,” the love song that the Grammy winner wrote after discovering a photo of a young Ethel and her late husband, Robert, dancing.

Need a shirt with my face on it?” Taylor Swift is doing some Saturday afternoon shopping when she spots the tee, a cherry-red number that immediately takes her back to a much simpler time. “That’s from, like, my 2006 tour,” she says, running her fingers over its gently worn cotton. “That’s … awesome.”

The 22-year-old superstar loves pretty much everything about this particular Nashville shop, which sells vintage clothing, musical instruments, and a quirkily curated selection of knickknacks out of a house with a wraparound porch where customers can take a break from browsing to sit for a spell. And with Christmas approaching, it seems like a promising place to start looking for presents. “I like to get gifts that remind people I know them,” she says. “[Things] that I have a specific reason for giving them. I start thinking about it really far in advance.” 

In the back room, two men’s sweaters catch her eye. “This would be baggy,” Swift says, holding up a cream, cable-knit V-neck—but she doesn’t seem to be shopping for a guy. “I’d wear it kind of off the shoulder.”

Who says a girl can’t holiday-gift herself? She certainly deserves it. Swift’s fourth album, Red, is a blockbuster that moved more than 1 million copies its first week, just as her 2010 album, Speak Now, did, making her the first female artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to hit that staggering mark more than once. Released last month, the boldly personal Red earned the six-time Grammy winner some of her best reviews yet, thanks to its lyrical maturity and ambitious forays into everything from earworm pop (“We are Never Ever Getting Back Together”) to U2-esque arena rock (“State of Grace”). Swift is no longer the wide-eyed country cutie pictured on that 2006 tour T-shirt; she’s a savvy young -woman who sees no reason to be boxed in by any genre. “You have to force yourself,” she says, “to evolve.”

And how. The onetime outsider—a songwriting savant bullied by mean girls in junior high and overlooked by the guys she crushed on has evolved into the ultimate insider, an entertainer Forbes ranked as the highest-paid celeb under 30 this year, with earnings of $57 million. She has more than 20 million Twitter followers, CoverGirl-endorsed beauty, A-list BFFs (Emma Stone and Selena Gomez), a couple of hit movies (Valentine’s Day and Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax), and a growing list of high-profile ex-boyfriends (including actors Taylor Lautner and Jake Gyllenhaal, musicians Joe Jonas and John Mayer, and, as breathlessly documented in the tabloids earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 18-year-old son, Conor). A performer who takes pride in being a role model, she will be honored next month by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights for her commitment to social change, including advocacy against bullying and support for arts education and disaster relief.

So why can’t Swift shake the fear that she’ll somehow mess it all up? “I’m scared of this whole thing backfiring,” she says. “Or chewing me up and spitting me out, and all of a sudden, I don’t love it anymore.”

She worries so much that, naturally, she wrote a song about it. “The Lucky One,” a track from Red, tells the story of a performer who decides to walk away from stardom (“Chose the Rose Garden over Madison Square”). If someday it all gets to be too much, could Swift do the same? She doesn’t yet have an answer for that, but she does know she puts “a crazy amount of pressure” on herself to keep topping her own achievements. “My head’s never really quiet,” she says. “The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch CSI or Law & Order, where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.”

 

“Nobody puts more pressure on Taylor than Taylor herself—in a good way,” says Liz Rose, who has cowritten a number of songs with Swift, including the Grammy-winning “White Horse” and “All Too Well” from Red. “As amazing as she is now, she was that amazing at 14,” Rose adds. “She’s just a force. There are emotions you don’t feel at 14 that you feel at 22, and her lyrics have grown with her.”

 

 

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“I have so much to learn about life,” 22-year-old superstar Taylor Swift tells Sunday’s issue of PARADE. “I know nothing compared to what I’m going to know someday.”

The onetime outsider—a songwriting savant bullied by mean girls in junior high and overlooked by the guys she crushed on— has evolved into the ultimate insider, an entertainer Forbes ranked as the highest-paid celeb under 30 this year, with earnings of $57 million. Her fourth album, Red, is a blockbuster that moved more than 1 million copies its first week. She has A-list BFFs, a couple of hit movies, and a growing list of high-profile ex-boyfriends (including Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Mayer, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 18-year-old son, Conor). So why can’t Swift shake the fear that she’ll somehow mess it all up?  “I’m scared of this whole thing backfiring,” she admits. “Or chewing me up and spitting me out, and all of a sudden, I don’t love it anymore.”

Here are some highlights from the interview. Check out the full interview with Taylor Swift in this weekend's issue of PARADE, and go behind the scenes of the star's cover shoot in the exclusive video below.

Despite writing about it so prolifically, Swift claims not to know much about love.
I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate. How many times has she been in love? I know how many people I’ve said ‘I love you’ to. I could probably count it up, but I don’t feel like it. Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real—because it lasted.

 

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On what to do if you’re stuck in the friend zone:
“Remember that people have to fall in love with you because they want to, not because you want them to. The truth is, if you’re a girl and he’s a guy, he’s probably already considered you as an option and decided for whatever reason not to pursue it right now. Don’t chance ruining your friendship by chasing him before he’s ready. You just have to wait for him to turn it into something more, if and when he wants to.”

 

How to tell if he’s trouble:
“It sucks, but you can’t know for sure after just one date. All you can do is be honest and real with him as you get to know each other. Deciding not to play games is the best way to go because it keeps things simple: If he messes it up by playing around with your heart, you’ll know he doesn’t deserve you. You were real with him, and he didn’t return the courtesy. Someone else will!”

 

When is it time to tell a guy that your never ever getting back together?:
“If you get into the habit of hiding your breakups and makeups from your friends and family because they roll their eyes at you, or no one can ever keep it straight if you guys are together or not…congratulations. You’re in an on-again, off-again relationship that’s gone on for way too long, and its time to end it for good!”