Country-pop superstar Taylor Swift has confessed that being pushed to her creative limits is something that she loves because the end result is always fantastic.

During a new interview with the Associated Press, the 'I Knew You Were Trouble' beauty explained that she strives to work with people who will challenge her and take her outside of her comfort zone, which helps her to create the best music she can:

"I’ve never been so challenged as a songwriter. I’ve never learned so much. I’ve never just been so excited to show up to the studio every day, just because you never know what we’re going to put together. I’ll bring in ideas and they’ll take such a different turn than where I thought they were going to go, and that level of unexpected spontaneity is something that really thrills me in the process of making music."

Swift added that she enjoys the way plans change in the studio as she finds herself asking producers and collaborators: "What if we did this? What if we made it weirder? What if we took it darker? I love people who have endless strange and exciting ideas about where music can go."

Watch part of a new interview with Swift here: