Taylor Swift on her 'Swifties': “I have to be as Good a Person [as I can] While My Name Matters to Them...”

Taylor Swift has 52.8 million Twitter followers, 22.1 million on Instagram and 74.4 million likes on Facebook, says Telegraph. Describing her legions of social media fans she calls her 'Swifties' to the UK news site, the 25-year-old award-winning and best-selling singer-songwriter said: "Not in a way that's like, having sycophantic worshipers, my fans make fun of me - it's really cool. They have all these Gifs of me making an idiot of myself or tripping and falling on stage. They bring humor back into it for me. I get too serious sometimes - you can probably tell - and they bring me back to like, 'OK, I'm not really doing anything that difficult. I just need to calm down.'"

And for being that way to her, Swift says: "I love them. They are cool and smart and hilarious and focused on the right things. I want to make the most of this cultural relevance or success or whatever you want to call it, because it's not going to last. I have to be as good a person [as I can] while my name matters to them. Because it's not always going to matter to kids who are 15 and really struggling with who they want to be or [because] their friends were brutal to them at school that day. That's actual turmoil. I have to do everything I can to make their day better while I still can."

Just last Christmas, Swift sent some lucky fans gift items like blankets, novelty aprons, cookies, soft toys, even Polaroid cameras with film to replicate the 1989 cover, all wrapped and packed inside giant FedEx boxes by she herself, each with a personal letter. As she told Telegraph, "[Sending presents] is fun for me. If I go a week without sending something, I start to feel sad. I'm getting to know them on a person-by-person basis. When I pick people to send packages to, I go on their social-media sites for the last six months and figure out what they like or what they are going through. Do they like photography? I'll get them a 1980s Polaroid camera. Do they like vintage stuff? I'll go to an antiques place and get them 1920s earrings. Do they work out a lot? I'll get them workout stuff. When you actually get to know them on a person-by-person basis, you realize what you're doing is special and sacred and it matters." No wonder the Swifties are so fiercely loyal to their star.