Taylor Swift's new album, Red hits stores this Monday, and the five-time Grammy winner has talked about her influences and raw lyrics to Reuters, calling it "the most adventurous album I've ever made."

"Red' is really kind of diary entries of the last two years of my life," Swift told Reuters in an interview. "There were beginnings and ends and there were ups and downs, and lessons that I learned and then had to learn all over again the exact same way ... the ups and downs of the whole experience of falling in love and being let down and letting go and starting over." The catchy synthesis of country and pop that is We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together proved to be a smash hit for the 22-year-old, becoming Billboard's most-downloaded first week digital single. Like many of her songs, fans spent just as much time trying to work out who it was about as they did humming along, but that's become a Swift trademark.

"It helps me to know that 90 percent of what those little blog posts and articles say isn't true at all," said Swift, who is currently dating Conor Kennedy. "The one bit of privacy that I have is knowing that I know who inspired those songs and I don't tell anyone. "For me, keeping my private life private and only sharing it with people through my music allows me to have that connection with my fans and not shut them out of anything. But it allows me to also have something that's just mine."