Taylor Swift Pictures and Quotes at 2011 Teen Choice Awards

Taylor Swift's Advice For Teens: "Live Like You're 80 Looking Back at Your Life"

August 7, 2011

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Taylor Swift was full of love for all her teenage fans as she took the stage and hit the press room at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City this evening. She looked ladylike in her white dress after accepting her Ultimate Choice surfboard from good friend Emma Stone. Backstage Taylor talked about the best advice that she got when she was a teenager just a few years ago and what sort of music she's listening to these days:

On the best advice she got as a teenager: "Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenage years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go to breakfast? As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. As an 80 year old looking back, you have that breakfast with your dad. It's just little things like that that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making the choices you won't regret later."
On what she's listening to these days: "I'm really going through a Beach Boys phase. I'm listening to the Beach Boys and The Shirelles. All kids of 50s and 60s music."

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On the best advice she got as a teenager: "Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenage years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go to breakfast? As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. As an 80 year old looking back, you have that breakfast with your dad. It's just little things like that that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making the choices you won't regret later."
On what she's listening to these days: "I'm really going through a Beach Boys phase. I'm listening to the Beach Boys and The Shirelles. All kids of 50s and 60s music."

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5 Comments

KEANEKEANE 1 year

Dumb...look back as tho we're wrinkly, arthritic, and obsessed with our bowels?? She's as deep as a thimble

silvertini 1 year

Taylor got good advice, and it's really nice of her to share it. There are so many things I look back on now--even over the last few years since I've been a teenager--that I would change if I could. It's not so difficult to call my mother or spend a few hours with my aunt or listen to a friend in need instead of going out. These are the things that matter. At the end of my life, I'd rather know that I was a good person than know I watched a lot of tv and did my nails and partied. I might not listen to Taylor's music or go to her concerts, but she did get good advice, which could also be stated as: In a few years--or in many years--which action would you be more proud of yourself for taking?

Burkina 1 year

I don't want life advice from someone who writes lyrics like they're 11 looking back on their life.

tigerheart 1 year

The Beach Boys? Please girl, you couldn't suck out anything psychedelic if you tried.

awesomepants 1 year

Did they make up that award for her? This girl says the weirdest crap. So when she's 80 and looking back on her life she'll see John Mayer and not regret that she went out with him? Please.