Interview: Miley Cyrus

Q: Have you learned anything yet about what’s love and what’s just a crush?

MC: I get embarrassed. Like when you’re trying to play it cool and you’re like, I won’t text back for the next hour, that’s when you know it’s actually serious. Those games are so stupid. It’s like, “Oh he called but I’m not going to call back until tomorrow.” It’s just so stupid. But when you’re over-thinking it, you must really like somebody!

Q: How about knowing when somebody really loves you?

MC: My parents are a little loco, so if you love me and my family, which has five kids, my mom, my dad, my grandma and about ten thousand dogs, after you meet my lifestyle, then you’re good. You’re a keeper!

Q: Was it intimidating to learn to play piano for the first time in The Last Song?

MC: I’m not really scared to sound like crap at the beginning. It started out kind of messy, but I got better and better. And by the end of the movie, I think I actually had the song down. It took me awhile, but I did okay.

Q: What about filming on Tybee Island?

MC: I would move to Tybee Island, just to eat there all the time! I definitely put on a little weight when I got there. But it was awesome. Yeah, I want to go back to Tybee, there was definitely a lot of food.

Q: How come you stopped posting on Twitter?

MC: I was just tired of telling everyone what I’m doing. I hate when I read things where celebrities are complaining, “I have no personal life.” I’m like, “Well, that’s because you write about everything that you’re doing!”

I was that person that’s like, “I’m so sad, I have no real normal life. Everyone knows what I’m doing.” But that was my fault, because I was telling everyone. You know, I would tweet, “I’m here,” and then wonder why a thousand fans were outside the restaurant. It was lame.

The Internet is not cool, and most likely not real. Everything is just better when you’re not so wrapped up in that. You have to just enjoy the moment you’re in for yourself, and stop telling people about it. It wastes your life.

Q: What are you up to with your music right now?

MC: I’m just finishing up my record, which will come out towards the end of the summer. And I’m really excited about that. But this film was the test for me to decide what I really wanted to do, and I love making movies. That’s what I want to pursue. It’s not that I don’t love music. I love music. If every film could have music, I would do that! But I feel like I need to get away from that for a little while. It’s my security blanket and I don’t want to always fall back on that.

But I just feel like the music industry is so contrived and political right now. If people stepped away and said, “We’re not going to work like this, it’s more about our art than the politics,” then maybe it would go back to being respected again.

But right now, I just feel like it has lost a lot of respect. I’d rather be in this industry where I feel like I can be different. And do things that really inspire me.