Taylor Swift has insisted that she will always write her own lyrics.

The '1989' star has been named Billboard's Woman of the Year and they sat down with the US icon to speak about her career.

Referring to songwriting, Swift said that she isn't one to work with other songwriters when it comes to penning lyrics.

She said: "I’m not going to be one of those artists who walks in [to a room with songwriters] and says, 'I don’t know, what do you want to write about?' or one of those things where they say, 'So what’s going on in your life?', and I tell them and then they have to write a song about it.

"I wouldn’t be a singer if I weren’t a songwriter. I have no interest in singing someone else’s words."

Swift added that her label were initially unsure about the pop sound and image of her latest album '1989'. She said:

"I remember all the sit-downs in the conference rooms...they said, 'Are you really sure you want to do this? Are you sure you want to call the album '1989'? We think it’s a weird title. Are you sure you want to put an album cover out that has less than half of your face on it? Are you positive that you want to take a genre that you cemented yourself in, and switch to one that you are a newcomer to?'.

"And answering all of those questions with 'Yes, I'm sure' really frustrated me at the time - like, 'Guys, don’t you understand, this is what I’m dying to do?'."

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