Tennessean.com reports...

After a photo appeared of Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler together at a Nashville Predators game, some people told Taylor that they were surprised that the trio would be friends.

Taylor says there's a perception that women performers must be jealous of each other. "People were shocked when they saw three girls who do the same thing as a career and we are friends," she said.

"Carrie is my role model," said Taylor, who is up for Best New Artist at the Feb. 10 Grammys, an award Carrie won last year. "That girl has done so much to prove what females in country music can do. Just from knowing her, she'll never say a bad thing about anybody ever, even if somebody has said something bad about her. She'll never say something catty, and it's really cool. It makes me want to be that way too."

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