Taylor Swift has opened up about dealing with the pressures of her huge fame in a tell-all chat with NME.

Admitting she turns to her mum when times get hard, Taylor revealed a more vulnerable side to herself.

The 25-year-old tells NME: “If you let your anxiety get the better of you, like everybody’s waiting for you to really mess up, then you’ll be done.

"A lot of the time I call my mom and talk for a really long time, just to remind myself of all the things that are great and that matter.”

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She insists: “It’s not about trying to be perfect. Not to try and sound like the good witch in The Wizard Of Oz, but I want to do good things with what I have. I don’t think my brain could cook up shocking things for the sake of being shocking.”

And in another bombshell, the singer, dating Calvin Harris, 31, said she is looking forward to her world tour ending in December. She says: “I think I should take some time off. People might need a break from me. I’m going to hang out with friends. Write new music. Maybe not write new music. I don’t know.”

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Asked about her run-in with Nicki Minaj on Twitter, Taylor insisted she didn't want to talk about it, but added: "I send text messages now. If there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding, I go to someone's management, I get their number and I text them. It's an important lesson for anyone to learn in 2015."

And it's not the only bust-up she opened up about, as Tay Tay admitted all was good with her and Kanye West now.

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"Me and Kanye are on such good terms now, six years later," she told the mag. "It took a while... But I had to tell Beck this story earlier. I was at dinner with Kanye a week after the Grammys, he stops what he's saying and he goes, ‘What is this song? I need to listen to this every day.’

"I said, ‘It's Beck, it's on an album called 'Morning Phase', I think you've heard of it…’ We just burst out laughing. And he says, ‘Hey, sometimes I'm wrong.’"

To read the full interview, pick up your free copy of NME magazine this Friday.