Taylor Swift Named 'Woman of the Year'; '1989' Singer Explains Switch to Pop, New York and Why She's Single

Taylor Swift's 1989 sold more than one million copies in its first week, and it feels as if she's done at least that many interviews since destroying the charts in late October.

Her recent "Woman of the Year" feature in Billboard had plenty of great moments, and we're here to break them down for you.

On telling Big Machine's Scott Borchetta that 1989 would not have any traces of country music... "Of course he went into a state of semi-panic and went through all the stages of grief -- the pleading, the denial. 'Can you give me three country songs? Can we put a fiddle on 'Shake it Off''? And all my answers were a very firm 'no,' because it felt disingenuous to try to exploit two genres when your album falls in only one. I never want to pull the wool over people's eyes, because people are so much smarter than a lot of marketing professionals give them credit for."

I'm as optimistic and enthusiastic about New York as I am about the state of the music industry, and a lot of people aren't optimistic about those two things. And if they're not in that place in their life, they're not going to relate to what I have to say."

On her current relationship status... "If I was in love with someone right now, I don't know how I would handle everyone else weighing in on our stories, because when you're in a relationship there are a lot of secrets and a lot of sacred moments that you don't want to divulge. I, however, am 24, perfectly happy being alone, and one of the reasons I'm perfectly happy being alone is that no one gets hurt this way."

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