When you say your speaking voice has changed, have you lost your twang?
I think I talk how my friends talk. When I first moved to Nashville I was hanging out with all these kids with Southern accents, and I’d say “y’all” more and stuff like that. And now, I don’t know, I travel the world and I’ve developed my own way of talking.
Is there a lyric on Red you’re especially proud of?
The lyric I’m most proud of is from “All Too Well”: “And you call me up again just to break me like a promise / so casually cruel in the name of being honest.” That was something I came up with while ranting during a soundcheck. I was just playing these chords over and over onstage and my band joined in and I went on a rant. Those were some of the lines I thought of.
Who were you ranting at?
Hmm. I was going through a really hard time then, and my band joined in playing, and one of the first things that I came up with, just, like, spat out, was “And you call me up again just to break me like a promise, so casually cruel in the name of being honest.”
You don’t have to say who you voted for, but by any chance does it rhyme with Shmarack Shmobama?
I never talk about politics. Like, strict rule, I just don’t, because I don’t think it’s my place to.
Did you take anything away from the results of the election?
I’m sorry, I just don’t talk politics. Politics and religion. It’s kind of like being at a dinner party. I feel that at 22 I really shouldn’t be proclaiming what I think politically. I’m a singer, and I think that’s what people want to see me stick to. When I’m older and wiser and I’m more read-up on things, maybe then I’ll voice my political opinions.
i will catch it tomorrow afternoon probably... 
especially to IKYWT