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Taylor Swift: 'I won't burn down the house I built by hand'

'Clean' songstress Taylor Swift has opened up about the fact that she hasn't had a public meltdown and confessed that she simply never felt the need to rebel about anything. 

During a new interview with ELLE magazine, the superstar explained that she worked hard for her career so she will work just as hard to maintain and protect it:

"As far as the need to rebel against the idea of you, or the image of you: Like, I feel no need to burn down the house I built by hand. I can make additions to it. I can redecorate. But I built this. And so I'm not going to sit there and say, 'Oh, I wish I hadn't had corkscrew-curly hair and worn cowboy boots and sundresses to awards shows when I was 17; I wish I hadn't gone through that fairy-tale phase where I just wanted to wear princess dresses to awards shows every single time.'"

"Because I made those choices. I did that. It was part of me growing up. It wasn't some committee going, 'You know what Taylor needs to be this year?' And so with '1989,' I feel like we gave the entire metaphorical house I built a complete renovation and it made me love the house even more -- but still keeping the foundation of what I've always been."

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