Hailee Steinfeld Tells 'Nylon': Taylor Swift is an 'Amazing Friend'!

Hailee Steinfeld keeps it cool in a backwards cap on the cover of Nylon magazine’s Young Hollywood May 2014 issue, on newsstands now.

Here’s what the 17-year-old actress had to share with the mag:

On her friendship with Taylor Swift: “[She is] an amazing friend.” “I always get the ‘Tell us something nobody knows [about Swift] question. And it’s like, we both respect each other tremendously, but we choose to keep our friendship out of the public eye. She’s a really great person and an inspiration to me and many others.”

On if she is a regular teenager: “Yes. I am…Yes. I am…Yeah, absolutely…It is about being honest. People live different lifestyles, and I always find an equivalency: If I’m filming or going to and audition it’s [the same as] my friends going school or dance class. I think everyone lives the same way and encounters the same sort of life.”

On her alternate career paths: “I’ve always thought it would be really cool to work in a restaurant or at a coffee shop or something. And I think, ‘Maybe I’ll go do that.” And then it’ll be written into a script or something…And so that’s my opportunity.”

For more from Hailee, visit Nylonmag.com.

FYI: Hailee is wearing a Levi’s Trucker Jacket on the cover.