Country’s teen queen Taylor Swift shows how much of a fighter she is in the new issue of Billboard.

“Being on a little record label, you have to fight harder than being on a bigger record label to be on award shows, to be a performer and a presenter and to get big tours and support,” shares the 18-year-old country singing sensation. “My record label [Big Machine Records] had 12 employees when I put out my album and my single and I just kept looking around and thinking, ‘Some day we are going to grow and this is going to change and we are going to have a fighting chance.’”