Taylor Swift Doesn't Believe in the Idea of Happily Ever After

Taylor Swift totally rocks out on the cover of Elle magazine’s June 2015 issue, on newsstands May 19.

The 25-year-old entertainer chatted with Tavi Gevinson in her interview with the magazine, and talked about love, relationships, and more.

On not feeling the need to rebel: “As far as the need to rebel against the idea of you, or the image of you: Like, I feel no need to burn down the house I built by hand. I can make additions to it. I can redecorate. But I built this. And so I’m not going to sit there and say, ‘Oh, I wish I hadn’t had corkscrew-curly hair and worn cowboy boots and sundresses to awards shows when I was 17; I wish I hadn’t gone through that fairy-tale phase where I just wanted to wear princess dresses to awards shows every single time.’ Because I made those choices. I did that. It was part of me growing up. It wasn’t some committee going, ‘You know what Taylor needs to be this year?’ And so with 1989, I feel like we gave the entire metaphorical house I built a complete renovation and it made me love the house even more�but still keeping the foundation of what I’ve always been.”

On the idea of happily ever after: “I’d never been in a relationship when I wrote my first couple of albums, so these were all projections of what I thought they might be like. They were based on movies and books and songs and literature that tell us that a relationship is the most magical thing that can ever happen to you. And then once I fell in love, or thought I was in love, and then experienced disappointment or it just not working out a few times, I realized there’s this idea of happily ever after which in real life doesn’t happen. There’s no riding off into the sunset, because the camera always keeps rolling in real life. It’s magical if you ask anyone who has ever fallen in love�it’s the greatest. Now I have more of a grasp on the fact that when you’re in a state of infatuation and you think everything that person does is perfect, it then�if you’re lucky�morphs into a real relationship when you see that that person is not in fact perfect, but you still want to see them every day.”

For more from Taylor, visit Elle.com.