Taylor Swift Covers September Issue of Vanity Fair + Talks Kanye West and Friendship in Hollywood

Taylor Swift covers the coveted September issue of Vanity Fair and is deemed the “captain of the #girlsquad” and the “most influential 25-year-old in America” in a black and white ensemble sitting on a piano bench photographed by Mario Testino.

Inside the issue, Swift discusses how she challenged Apple music’s new streaming services, how she overcame her feud with Kanye West following the rapper awkwardly interrupting her 2009 VMA acceptance speech, her friendships with women in Hollywood and more. Check out some excerpts below.

On friendship in Hollywood: “When you’ve got this group of girls who need each other as much as we need each other, in this climate, when it’s so hard for women to be understood and portrayed the right way in the media. . . . now more than ever we need to be good and kind to each other and not judge each other—and just because you have the same taste in men, we don’t hold that against each other,”

On Kanye West: “I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me—so it was the same issue, and we both reached the same place at the same time. I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along. . . . And then Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.”

On career aspirations: “If you look at Oprah, she’s made so many people happy over the years. She’s made so much money, but she’s given so much of it away. . . . Same thing with Angelina Jolie. She’s been so productive, but she’s used that position to better other people’s lives, and I think that’s where I’d want to be.”

Read the full interview on VanityFair.com.

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