In her most candid interview ever, Miley Cyrus has spoken up on her mother's reaction to her haircut, the reason she stripped on camera and why she sticks out her tongue!

The 20-year-old also revealed that she feels that to strip-off one's clothes is a way of expressing purity of emotion and that's what exactly she did in "Wrecking Ball."

"I could put on a gown and have some beauty pictures taken of me, but where's the honesty in that? In my video for "Wrecking Ball" I am naked and vulnerable and crying because it's a song about how it feels when everything around you has been destroyed," Miley tells in her latest interview with You Magazine.

"I feel that stripping off is a way of expressing purity of emotion," the former Hannah Montana star says.

Miley chopped off her hair and even lost weight in a bid to say final goodbye to her Hannah Montana image. So what was her mother's reaction to her really shot pixie cut?

"Ha, ha. Yeah, when I did it my mom was shocked at first and tripped out - I mean, she's got the whole long blonde hair thing going on - but now she loves it and wouldn't have me with it any other way," Mileys says adding that she fails to understand why people associate girls with long hair and bigger breasts.

"I'm trying to break out of that long hair, big boobs stereotype that women feel they have to conform to. I mean, we're not living in the freakin' 1950s - short hair is OK. Have people really got so little imagination?," she asks.

The controversial singer is aware of the fact that critics hate her new cold persona but she does not bother about anything and says her fans love her the way she is.

"People try to make everything so thought out when sometimes there's no real reason why. My fans love the fact that everything I'm doing is my choice. It's my body. I want what I do to be memorable and so do my fans - I'm just living, just being," Miley says.

So what is it with Miley and her tongue? Why does she always stick it out? You will be surprised that the "We Can't Stop" singer has a very simple explanation for it.

"I stick my tongue out because straight photos are sooo boring. But even if I do stick my tongue out, that doesn't change the quality of the human being inside. I'd rather be honest and upfront; being a good person isn't about sitting with your legs crossed. I'm just being who I am, which is the best example I can be," the songstress says.

Miley is of the view that she is an entertainer and has to be different from her competition. "What would be the point if I looked like every other singer out there? Being young, it's important for me to learn and grow and not fit into a box," Miley says.

So what after the success of "Wrecking Ball" which is wrecking all records?

"I'm always thinking about what I'm going to do next. I broke the record and now I want to break it in double time," Miley tells the magazine. We wish her all the best!

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