Taylor Swift took a break from her globe-trotting Speak Now world tour this week to return to the 'Ellen DeGeneres Show.' The 21-year-old was eager to dish about her love life -- or more specifically the lack thereof.

"I don't have [a boyfriend]! I keep telling you that," she insisted to the Emmy-winning talk-show host. "If I did, and I was like, 'I don't have a boyfriend, my God,' [said in her best whining voice], you'd know I had a boyfriend. I for real don't have a boyfriend. I sit by myself and I watch 'Law and Order.' I don't have a boyfriend. I don't have even kind of a boyfriend. I don't have someone that I'm texting that's a guy that might someday be my boyfriend. There's nothing going on right now."

"That's pathetic," Ellen interjected, eliciting laughs from both the studio audience and the young superstar herself.

"If you're the girl that needs a boyfriend and then once she loses that boyfriend, she needs to replace that with a different boyfriend, it's just a constant stream of boyfriends all the time," the 'Sparks Fly' singer explained, adding that she'd prefer to hold out for that one special guy.

It may be a good thing the Pennsylvania native isn't looking for romance right now. In addition to her successful tour, which will continue in 2012, she is also considering taking on acting and a few other "surprise projects" in the near future. The multi-tasking entrepreneur is also promoting her new fragrance, 'Wonderstruck,' and working on a new album that will be filled with more sad songs than she has recorded in the past.

Taylor's upcoming itinerary includes stops in California, Kentucky and Florida. She'll also return to her current hometown of Nashville for the upcoming CMA Awards, where the singer-songwriter is nominated for five trophies, including Entertainer of the Year. Keep track of her tour schedule here.

The 45th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Nov. 9 at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.

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