Taylor Swift uses several "coping mechanisms" to deal with fame, including using complex words to "mock" her haters.

The 36-year-old pop megastar has told how she sometimes hits back at those who criticize her by deliberately using big words she knows they will have to "look up".

Speaking on the Grammy Museum's Icon Sessions, she told Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr: "Sometimes when people are mocking me it's really fun to mock them back.

"Sometimes I like to just use words that they have to look up in order to talk s*** about."

She also added in an exaggerated tone: "It's like, anything you say, they're like, 'Oh, easy for you to say.' "

Taylor has opened up about her "coping mechanisms" she puts into practice to help her get through life as a huge music star, admitting she knows she could've quit her career at any point before it became "unmanageably big".

She said: "I go through several processes and coping mechanisms that I've gone through over the years and one of them is saying, 'You chose this. You chose this every day. You could have opted out of this any day before it got unmanageably big.'

"And I decided not to because I love it that much. And that's just where it begins and where it ends.

"And everything that comes with this ultimately is worth it as long as I get to still make music."

Despite receiving hate from some, the Love Story hitmaker - who is married to NFL player Travis Kelce, 36 - prefers to focus on her adoring fans and knows she is making music "for the right reasons".

She added: "I realized that I'm making music because I'm playing for the fans. "I'm putting this out for people who care about it and who look to music as a way to cope with their life in the way that I did.

"I think that if you can actually go through all those checkpoints, and realize that putting out music that you've made that you love so much is not the path to universal validation, if you're still doing it, then you love it for the right reasons."