Taylor Swift: 'I didn't drink until I was 21 because I didn't want to be a bad role model'

'Shake It Off' hitmaker Taylor Swift has revealed that she definitely isn't teetotal, but refrained from alcohol until she was 21 because she didn't want to be a bad role model to her young fans.

The songstress will turn 25 on December 13 and when asked by Barbara Walters recently about her 'good girl' image, she confessed that she does drink now and again, but waited until she was of legal age to do so:

"I mean, I do drink, I am 25,” Taylor clarified. “So it’s not like, I mean… Yeah, I was at a Knicks game and I had a beer and everybody was like, ‘Ohhh!’ I was like, ‘Tsk.’ … I did wait until I was 21 to drink. I was so paranoid about getting in trouble or setting the wrong example or sending the wrong message.”

'Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014' is due to air on ABC this coming Sunday, December 14, at 9/8c in the USA.

She also opened up about her love life in the personal interview with Walters and confessed that she doesn't have time to date at the moment, despite what the papers constantly suggest: "I don't see a scenario right now, the way my life is, in which it could work. So I don't think about it because I don't like to think about things that I can't solve. I think all the time about big concepts in my life. I don't have answers for everything and that doesn't scare me."

Watch her performance of 'Style' from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show below: