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Taylor Swift feels responsibility in stardom

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"I definitely think about a million people when I am getting dressed in the morning," the singer-songwriter with the supermodel looks told the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" in an interview to be telecast on Sunday.

"That's just part of my life now. I think it's my responsibility to know it and to be conscious of it."

She added it would be all too easy, as a star, to deny any impact on her audience: "The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation -- so make your words count."

Swift -- who collected her second career entertainer of the year trophy at the Country Music Awards last week -- scores her eighth top-10 debut in the Billboard singles charts this week with "If This Was a Movie."

Her first concert album, "Speak Now World Tour: Live," recorded during the early stages of an ongoing world tour that kicked off in Singapore in February this year, is due out Monday.

CBS posted a snippet of her "60 Minutes" interview Wednesday on its news website (www.cbsnews.com).

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011