Taylor Swift recently turned 18, but she's still in no hurry to experiment with her adulthood.
She once promised that she would not drink anything alcoholic until she turned 21, and she makes it a point to drink water out of a bottle — not from a glass — when she attends parties, fearful that someone might believe she's gone back on that promise.
"I'm trying to be who I am and not succumb to acting cool or grown up," she told The Tennessean, adding that if she makes decisions about how to behave based on other people's perceptions of trendiness, "I will consider myself a failure."
Even as a good-girl -- Taylor is pretty trendy these days. She has a debut album that sold 2 million copies, three hit singles, and she was a lavender-dressed presenter on last night's 50th annual Grammy Awards, where she was nominated for Best New Artist, an honor that went instead to pop singer Amy Winehouse.
"It's not a burden," Taylor insisted of her non-indulgent choices. "It's the way that I live my life because of the way my life has turned out. I've been given an amazing gift in terms of this career, and I realize that although we've had tremendous success in the first year and a half of it, it could go away tomorrow if I make the wrong choices."