'Love Story' beauty Taylor Swift has opened up about the songwriting process that leads to her penning such relatable yet personal tracks as 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' and 'Mean'.

In a new interview with Billboard, the talented songstress explained that she likes to give her team and creative collaborators a backstory to every musical idea she has, so she starts off writing sessions with "girl talk":

"I start all of my co-writing sessions with girl talk. I walk in and I go, "I have to tell you what I'm going through right now" and I spend 25 minutes talking about the guy that I met four months ago and how things were fine and then he lied about this and I freaked out. I haven't been talking to him, but I really want to. I want to write a song about that feeling. And then I get out my guitar and say here's my idea, but I wanted to give you the back story before I played you the idea."

She also revealed that being 22-years-old has been a fantastic experience because it's the kind of age where "you still know nothing, but you know that you know nothing", and she wanted to incorporate that idea into her forthcoming new album, 'Red':

"For me, being 22 has been my favorite year of my life. I like all the possibilities of how you're still learning, but you know enough. You still know nothing, but you know that you know nothing. You're old enough to start planning your life, but you're young enough to know there are so many unanswered questions. That brings about a carefree feeling that is sort of based on indecision and fear and a the same time letting lose. Being 22 has taught me so much."

Listen to her album track 'Begin Again' in full here: