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Taylor Swift's parents taught her early on to put her heart into her work, and she learned that lesson well.
Taylor tells the Colorado Spring Independent that her parents stressed: "Have high hopes, but never expectations about what you're going to get in life," and now she says, "I still can't believe [my success]. I'm just trying to work so hard."
Taylor has already opened on tour for Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley and Tim McGraw & Faith Hill. She's been able to bring her live music performance to more than a million fans.
"I'm really, really lucky to be able to tour with all these people," she says. "I've had five major tours in a year and a half. I don't take vacations. I don't take weeks off. I'm so lucky; I should play every night."
While fans won't see a new album from Taylor until this time next year, she will sing in 33 states in just three months this fall. And Target stores have already released her six-song holiday exclusive, for which she wrote two new songs and rewrote the melody for "Silent Night."
"I like the holidays a lot," she says. "I grew up on a Christmas tree farm, so the holidays for me were about helping Dad lug trees up a hill, putting them on people's cars."
If Taylor keeps it up, it's likely she'll reach just the future she's hoping for. "In 10 years, I'll be 27," she says. "I hope I'm still doing this. I'd love to be headlining."
