Miley Cyrus spoke candidly about her MTV Video Music Awards performance, telling Cosmopolitan magazine it wouldn't been a memorable show without her over-the-top performance.
Cyrus has made a name of herself by her unfiltered responses to the media. From her failed relationship with Liam Hemsworth to her twerk-filled performance, Cyrus once again finds a way to "shock" her audience with her "honest" responses.
Check out the best quotes from her Cosmo interview below.
How the "We Can't Stop" songstress feels about Liam Hemsworth:
"I need to treat my music like a relationship - give it my time and all the attention it deserves - and that's my main love right now. This is the best time of my life. I'm not going to look back on it and be like, 'I wish I hadn't been dwelling over a breakup,' you know? Because that's not what God wants my life to be about right now. God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed."
Why Cyrus believes her performance made the VMAs popular this year:
"When people started complaining about the awards show, I was like, 'Have you never seen the f***ing video?' And what if I hadn't done that performance? The VMAs would have been bad. They would have been missing something. The show was kind of making fun of how serious the pop industry is."
The "Wrecking Ball" singer could care less about her "haters:"
"I don't really care. I think everyone would have given anything to be me at that moment, because I was being one hundred percent true to myself...and not many people can say that. At the end of the day, I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else. I have a song that's like, 'Stay in your lane,' because I'm not going to be you and you're definitely not going to be me, so don't throw shade. I don't ever throw shade at anyone."
The best compliment an artist can get: approval from Kanye West?
"The support of other artists is important because there are not many people who can relate to what I'm going through right now. Kanye West is one of those people, and even Katy Perry has been so cool. It's easy for Kanye to support me because we're in totally separate lanes of competition, but for Katy to say that she appreciates what I'm really doing for the pop industry, that keeps you going. And I mean, who cares what the media buzz is if Kanye West is telling you that you're the s***?"
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