Miley Shimmers on the Cover of "Cosmopolitan"

While some people think Miley Cyrus has been riding on the hot mess express, she's actually doing amazing career wise and in her personal life. She said herself in an interview with Cosmopolitan that this is the best time in her life right now. I can agree with that seeing as her recent album Bangerz debuted at #1 on Billboard and she's just been enjoying life.

Miley talked to Cosmo about her personal life and her career. Check out some excerpts from the interview below and pick up the December issue of Cosmo when it hits stand November 5th.

So much has changed since your last Cosmo cover! Is this the most insane year of your life so far? "Everything is so chaotic and crazy right now and it’s so much all at once, but I’m living for it. I'm just having the best time ever and everything’s falling into place like it’s supposed to. Even people who want to hate on me, they can’t even shut down the fact that I’m literally what everyone is talking about. I don’t want to say that I’m on top right now – I feel like I’m kind of an underdog in a cool way. It’s almost punk rock to like me because it’s not the right thing to do. Like, society wants to shut me down."

People were shocked by your VMA performance – but it was tame compared with the “We Can’t Stop” video.
“When people started complaining about the awards show, I was like, ‘Have you never seen the fucking 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.”

How did you feel about the celebrities who dissed your VMAs performance? 
“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.”

This is the first time you’ve been single in years. How are you dealing with that? 

“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.”