Taylor Swift: Writing songs soothed my loneliness

The blonde star hit the country music scene when she was just a teenager. She has now confessed she was inspired to pour her emotions out in the form of song lyrics because she had no one else to share her feelings with. Taylor admits she had grown apart from her friends at school and felt no one could understand what she was going through.

"I turned to songwriting because I didn't really have anybody else to talk to," Swift said during an interview for MTV series The Show. "I was going through a very lonely phase at school, which a lot of kids do. It's just when you're going through it you feel like you're the only one going through it."

Although she is now happier with her personal life, Taylor still finds it cathartic to draw on her feelings when she writes songs. The 20-year-old believes it is important to be honest when she is penning lyrics and never wants to hide what she is really thinking or feeling.

"I changed a lot over the course of my life, and having written songs since I was 12, your perspective changes," she said. "But I think part of growing up is realising that you'll never change, but you'll never stay the same either."