Taylor Swift for CosmoGirl Dec 08-Jan 09

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The young beauty Taylor Swift poses for the cover of the December 2008/January 2009 issue of CosmoGirl magazine.

On Cosmo Girl online, Taylor opens up about her style, life and so on:

About expecting success:

The reason I was so driven was that I didn’t expect that anything would just happen for me. But that doubt fueled me to work harder. My attitude was the opposite of people who are like, “It’s gonna happen for me. It’s gonna happen for me.” My mantra was always, “It’s not gonna happen for me. Go out and play that show or it won’t happen.” You know? I never expected anything to be given to me.

About friends and school:

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are. I’m not quite sure how it affected me to lose all my friends and have to walk into school and go at it alone, but I can only hope that it made me a stronger person. And I got to write songs about it — my first songs were written because of trying to deal with that emotion. I will never be able to thank those people enough because it’s like, you can’t write a song if you’re not feeling anything, and sometimes, even though you have to be feeling pain, it’s worth it in the end. But it’s so funny because even when I go back to high school now, when I go back to functions like a football game or a band concert or something like that, it doesn’t matter how many people come up and ask me for my autograph, if I see like one of those popular people, I still feel like my hair is frizzy and people are looking at me.