Taylor Swift Calls Travis Kelce ‘Love of My Life,’ Reveals ‘Magical’ Relationship With Stevie Nicks on ‘Late Show’

During this time of the year when we reflect on the past 11 months and count up the good things in our lives, Taylor Swift was happy to tick off two things that she if full of gratitude for on Wednesday night’s (Dec. 10) Late Show. “Those two things that you just mentioned: getting engaged to the love of my life, getting all my music back, those were two things that just never could have happened,” Swift told host Stephen Colbert when he asked her about her year, which included her engagement to longtime love Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

“It wasn’t like, ‘oh it’s just a matter of time.’ Both those things could have just never arrived in my life and I’m so grateful for both of those things happening,” she said, giving Swifties credit for helping her achieve the dream of getting her masters back.

Given the massive scale of her popularity, Colbert also wondered who Swift turns to for advice about handling the rollercoaster of fame. Noting that nobody wants to hear a pop superstar whine about how hard it is for other people to relate to their success, Swift said she tries to find “through lines” in other people’s experiences in order to find points of commonality.

But also, she’s got Stevie Nicks.

“I’ve been very lucky. I have Stevie Nicks in my life in a way that like affects me positively constantly,” Swift, 35, said of the Fleetwood Mac rock icon. “Being able to talk with her and have a phone call with her and hear what she’s been through. She paved the way for me and any other artist to get to do this on this level. I feel very lucky that she’s lended her very magical, wonderful wise approach to life to me.”

Swift similarly shouted out her The Life of a Showgirl collaborator producer/songwriter Max Martin, calling the pop savant “one of the greatest, most legendary creators, producers songwriters… I think we are very lucky to live in the time that he is continuing to make music,” noting that in addition to his extensive work with her he wrote Britney Spears’ “… Baby One More Time.”

The singer said they talk a lot and she praised Martin for reinventing his sound over and over, noting that the thing she looks up to the most in assessing other people’s careers is longevity. “Career longevity, friendship longevity and their relationships. How do you keep a good thing going?,” she said before adding that some people also think there’s a downside to longevity.

“There’s also corners that are like ‘give someone else a turn! Can’t you just go away so we can talk about how good you were?’,” Swift said of what she suggested some people say about her now two decades of career peak-after-peak rise to the top of pop star mountain. “I’m like, ‘I don’t want to!’”

For the record, her third favorite person to talk to about career issues, in no particular order, is, of course, three-time Super Bowl champ Kelce. “I can talk to him about any of this,” she said.

Swift also (kind of) revealed her top five songs of all time, talked about the why she doesn’t want to have a recording studio at her house and described the “joy blackouts” she experienced after her Eras Tour shows during the chat multi-segment chat.

The first two episodes of Swift’s six-part Eras Tour docuseries, Taylor Swift: The End of an Era, will premiere on Disney+ on Friday (Dec. 12).

Watch Swift talk Stevie Nicks and Travis Kelce on The Late Show below.