Taylor Swift masks herself with a floppy hat on the cover of Vogue‘s February 2012 issue, on newsstands Tuesday (January 24).

The 22-year-old award winning country singer, wearing Rodarte, opened up about her fourth album, not being a cool kid and always thinking ahead. Check it:

On feeling like an outsider: “I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.”

On her future: “I fret about the future. What my next move should be. What the move after that should be. How I am going to sustain this. How do I evolve. I get so ahead of myself. I’m like, ‘What am I going to be doing at 30?’ But there’s no way to know that! So it’s this endless mind-boggling equation that you’ll never figure out. I over-analyze myself into being a big bag of worries.”

On her fourth album: “There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak, and that will turn out to be what the next album is about. The only way that I can feel better about myself – pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone – is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.

For more from Taylor, visit Vogue.com!