Country-pop sensation Taylor Swift has revealed that she has learned success doesn't just make you happy and life is far more complicated than that. 

During a recent interview with The Project, the 'Shake It Off' beauty admitted that finding fame isn't everything and she still has the same insecurities and worries as she did when she was a child:

"I always used to think to myself, ‘If I could just write songs, if I could just get a record deal, if I could just put out an album, then I swear I would be happy and I wouldn't need anything else'. And I think then you grow up and realise that the same things that you deal with in your childhood affect you when you're a grown up as well...You know, little kid, little problems—big kid, big problems."

Earlier this week, meanwhile, Swift told Esquire magazine that people are obsessed with celebrity takedown culture and assume that anyone famousmust have dirty secrets that are just waiting to be uncovered: "That's what I don't like about celebrity culture and the obsession with it, and the takedown culture that we seem to be in."

"You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy."

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Watch Swift talking about her new song 'Welcome To New York' below: