Taylor Swift: "No Contest" With Miley Cyrus & Selena Gomez

Taylor Swift has revealed that she doesn’t consider fellow teen stars like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez as competition, saying, “I don’t compete with other people in the industry - I compete with myself.”

The 19-year-old country singer tells the Associated Press, “I’ve always approached this from the place where I don’t compete with other girls.”

Swift says she and 16-year-old Disney Channel stars Cyrus and Gomez are friends, and that’s the way she wants to keep it.

“If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely,” she says.

“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.”

The ‘Love Story’ singer adds that dating as a celebrity is much more difficult than she anticipated.

“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. I think that’s unfair for the relationship,” she says.

“I don’t look for boyfriends - 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.”

Help Celebrate with Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus is about to turn 16 and you can celebrate with her at California’s Disneyland to help raise money for Youth Service America.

The ‘Hannah Montana’ star will perform on the night with a limited number of tickets available to the public for $250 each.

“It’s gonna be totally awesome,” Cyrus tells Entertainment Tonight. “I’m not going to give too much away about my birthday party because some of it is even a surprise for me, you don’t really know how it’s going to go until you get there.”

Tickets to ‘Miley’s Sweet 16 - Share the Celebration’ go on sale Saturday August 30 at 9am PDT.

Annie Leibovitz Talks About Miley Controversy

Acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz has spoken out about her controversial ‘Vanity Fair’ photoshoot with Miley Cyrus – in which the 15-year-old appears to have been photographed topless – with the famed celebrity snapper saying that she is “sorry that my portrait has been misinterpreted”.

Leibovitz issued a statement on Monday (April 28) following the furore created by the photo’s leak to the internet, and a subsequent statement issued by Cyrus, in which the teenage singer and actress admitted to feeling “so embarrassed” about the photo, in which she appears to be nude, but is actually clothed.

"Miley and I looked at fashion photographs together and we discussed the picture in that context before we shot it,” Leibovitz said.

“The photograph is a simple, classic portrait, shot with very little makeup, and I think it is very beautiful."

Cyrus's parents were at the shoot, including her dad Billy Ray, who also posed for photographs with his daughter. Although they left before the controversial photograph was taken, Cyrus’ grandmother and her teacher were still present.

’Vanity Fair' spokeswoman Beth Kseniak released a statement, saying, “Miley's parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley."