Taylor Swift doesn’t compete with her pals Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez — because she only competes with herself.

“I’ve always approached this from the place where I don’t compete with other girls,” Swift said in a new interview with the Associated Press. “I don’t compete with other people in the industry. I compete with myself.”

“If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely,” the 19-year-old added. “I wouldn’t have some of the coolest friends that I’m so glad I’ve gotten to know over the last couple of years… It’s really awesome to get to hang out with those girls and to call them friends.”

Taylor — who has previously dated Jonas Brothers star Joe Jonas — also revealed that she’s worried her fame will scupper her chances of finding a boyfriend.

“When you strategize a relationship too much, like, ‘We’re not gonna be public about it, and we’re gonna say this in interviews,’ when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship,” she says, adding that she doesn’t care what her love interest does or how he would affect her career. “I think that’s unfair for the relationship.

“I don’t look for boyfriends,” she says. “I don’t really scour the awards shows for who I’m going to date, but I think love happens when you’re not looking for it, and when it happens, I’m not going to be the one to overthink it.