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Taylor Swift: 'I started writing songs because I had no one to talk to'

Country-pop beauty Taylor Swift has revealed that she turned to songwriting at school because she didn't have many friends to confide in.

Speaking to the new issue of InStyle magazine, the 'I Knew You Were Trouble' songstress explained that writing about her feelings became cathartic and helped with the loneliness she was feeling at the time:

"When you're dealing with something like loneliness or confusion or rejection or frustration, those emotions are so jumbled up in your head. For me, the only way to condense them down into one thing is to write and three and a half minute song about it."

Swift added that she went through a 'tough time' at school so setting her thoughts to music was her escape from that:

"I first started writing songs because I didn't really have anyone else to talk to. As sad as that sounds, I was going through this really hard time at school where I didn't have any friends. Songwriting for me just started out as therapy." Watch her recent live performance at the 2013 BRIT Awards in London here: