the last like 20 years of my career feltlike it just felt like kind of whitenoise. Um,ai programming python and every time I went onstage, I kind of was re-triggered withthat that this is all that it is. And bygoing and extracting each individualfrequency, I've found a new love for allof my songs, all the versions of me, allthe eras.Welcome to the Village Recording Studioin Los Angeles and another chance for meto sit down face to face with thewonderful iconic Miley Cyrus. I nevertake these moments for granted andespecially this one. Something beautifulas the album or versions of Mileypresent and accounted for and a chancefor us to get to know her as onesingularity, one true artist.Sir,what's going on, buddy? Do you know thefull album yet? Of course. Piano. Oh,can you imagine? Yeah. We have somegigs. Yeah. We're looking for a umauxiliary guy that can play everything.Uh I'm an auxiliary guy. I can playeverything badly. Is that what you'relooking for? That would be perfect.Amazing. So, I wanted to ask you whereyou've been, Miley, but I think you'vejust been in varying rooms in thisbuilding. That's it. For the past coupleof years. That's absolutely it. This iskind of my home. That's why I wanted tohave you here at the village which is soiconic, you know, for creating. I have aphoto actually in my living room ofSteelely Dan standing exactly wherewe've been creating the record and theykind of are standing in a similar waythat all of us it's very tiny room thatall of us have been standing around thislike you know archival iconic console.Um and yeah, Fleetwood Mac in the liveroom. So, it just has so much musichistory and you can really feel it inhere and it it's it's my own cathedralreally. It it kind of has that feeling.It actually was a it was a Masonictemple. You and I spoke for a briefmoment on the phone which I've never hadsomeone, you know, the day beforesitting down and talking call me aboutthe album itself, which was just like someaningful and complimentary becauseit's what it's all about. And I told youwhen we were speaking on the phone thatfor in the summer vacation, I wasn'treally on a vacation. I was kind ofmoving into this world of somethingbeautiful. But endless summer vacationunlocked something beautiful for mebecause by being on vacation, by livingand being and experiencing, you know,love and family and nature and um I've Ifound something beautiful. It's clear tome looking back on the timeline thatokay, I'm leaving the the businesssituation I was in since I was a kid.Mhm.Um, I'm starting fresh in that regard.I've got new relationships that I'mfocused on. It just it was all renewal,right? I wrote something at thebeginning of this process about whatsomething beautiful meant to me. And youknow, white noise is essentiallyeverything happening all at the sametime. And I feel like that was kind ofwhat the last like 20 years of my careerfelt like. It just felt like kind ofwhite noise. Um, and every time I wenton stage, I kind of was re-triggeredwith that, that this is all that it is.And by going and extracting eachindividual frequency and falling in inlove with the individual sounds thatthen by putting them all together, I'vefound a new love for, you know, all ofmy songs, all of my albums, all of myperformances, all the versions of me,all the eras. But I needed to extracteach one and look at them as individualidentities. So they weren't they weren'ta reaction to each other? Because that'skind of what it felt like when I'd catchup with you. If you're like, I did that,I'm here now. I did that. I'm here now.So was this the first time you got totake a step back and actually go, oh,like I see it now as a beautiful canvasand each painting is unique and I canpaint something new. I think for me withflowers, somewhere inside of me, maybemy ego or maybe the, you know, theamount of time that I dedicated myselfto it. I think somewhere inside of me, Ineeded maybe to hold a trophy and justfeel for a moment that I have somethingthat I can hold in my hands that feelslike a true achievement. Cuz after everyalbum, I've been able to say, "Well, Idid what I came here to do and I madethe album that I set out to make, andthat's enough." But maybe it's the kidin me. I don't know what it was. But Ineeded like something to hold that mademe feel like I had really won. And so atthe Grammys, that's why I went wasactually for like healing. And funnyenough, I'm happy I'm talking to you ofall people, you know, because I wasn'tgoing to go to the Grammys. I wasn'tgoing to perform at the Grammys for surecuz as everybody was post pandemic, Iwas struggling with a lot of anxiety.And you know going from being lockeddown for a couple of years to being onthe stage in front of Oprah just feltlike shocking to every part of mynervous system. And so I almost didn'tdo that. And I started doing shows atthe Chateau Marmont that were intimateand you know all hand chosen by me. AndI had a celebration with you know theclosest people in my life to celebratethe nomination of the Grammys. But itwas just so bittersweet because I feltlike the whole night I was makingexcuses for why I wasn't going to go.you know, one it was I was just I wasafraid and like, you know, there wasfear, but I also don't think I wanted toever look at how much it would mean tome to win because every time that I'velost or every time that I've not beennominated, the way that I've been okaywith that is that doesn't matter to me.And there was somewhere that I wasavoiding this the fact that it didmatter to me, you know, somewhere. Andum not something I obsessed about orthought about or I never wrote a songthinking I want to get a Grammy, butreceiving that Grammy for Flowers waslike it felt more like a band-aid onlike a broken heart in some way. And soonce I

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