#1531 - Miley Cyrus

Joe Rogan (0:14)

How are you?

Miley Cyrus (0:15)

I'm good, Joe.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

Pleasure to meet you.

Miley Cyrus (0:16)

You also. I'm happy to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

I'm happy to have you here. You have a fantastic voice. Not just a singing voice, but your talking voice is very unusual. It makes you step back a little bit.

Miley Cyrus (0:26)

I've actually recently I was walking around in Boston. I went to a museum and this like older man walked up to me. I had no idea who I was. He was just enjoying the art also in the museum and started talking to me forever about my voice. And then there was a college, some sort of trip to the museum. And then everybody started freaking out.

And it was so cool just to have someone stop me about my speaking voice because that had never happened to me before. I think because I was turned around and I had the mullet, so I could have been anybody. I could have been anyone.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

It's a heavy voice.

Miley Cyrus (0:59)

It's a heavy voice.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

You didn't always have a heavy voice though. Like when my kids love Hannah Montana, by the way. So when I would watch, your voice was different.

Miley Cyrus (1:08)

It definitely changed. I actually, I kind of learned a lot about the voice and how our experiences affect our voice. I had a surgery in November on my voice.

I had something called Reiki's oedema, which when my doctor told me about it, he said, no one shy ever has this. This is for abuse of the voice. This is for people that talk way too fucking much. And usually, this happens when you're like in your 60s or 70s.

Joe Rogan (1:35)

How do I not have that?

Miley Cyrus (1:37)

I don't know. I don't know. Mine, I think honestly, really I started touring, you know, at probably 12 or 13 And not only was I, the adrenaline that you have after a show, it's not really the singing that affects your voice as much. It's afterwards, you're totally on. And then it's really hard to get that sleep. You stay up, talking all night. Later, the talking all night, turn into smoking all night. And now this is kind of where we're at.

We got some dirt on her.

You know, the voice can be like a face. It collects wrinkles and it tells a story. If you look at yourself and you go, oh, I didn't have this until this trip. You know, I sat out in the sun or I partied too much or whatever. Your voice does the same thing. It collects dirt.

Joe Rogan (2:17)

It's very distinctive.

Miley Cyrus (2:19)

Yes, it gives me away.

I mean, I'm pretty much one of the only chicks in LA with a mullet. So that gives me away also.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Well, you're not in the right neighborhood.

Miley Cyrus (2:28)

I know. I got to dry out to the desert, I guess.

Joe Rogan (2:30)

That's right. Go out to Joshua Tree.

Miley Cyrus (2:33)

Yeah, exactly.

Joe Rogan (2:34)

Find the chicks that are tripping.

Miley Cyrus (2:35)

Exactly.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

Yeah, with handmade tattoos.

Miley Cyrus (2:37)

I had a couple of those too.

Joe Rogan (2:40)

But there's something very distinctive about a voice you earned.

Miley Cyrus (2:43)

It's true. It's kind of like when you see somebody, and I think especially being a female in the industry, I think growing up and changing and kind of that, there is such a kind of stigma with aging. It's a very kind of scary thing as a female in the industry. And I thought about it a lot and thought about my voice. I actually had someone when I was doing an interview a couple months ago said, she sounds like she stayed up all night smoking too many darts. And I said, well, I fucking have.

And that's just the truth. And if you know that was anyone else, you know, it's kind of like you're weathered or you're aged or you've been through it. And, you know, we'll talk about it as we go. But they're over the last year, I noticed a really big change in my voice, kind of a heaviness to it.

And I experienced some heavy things. And so I feel like it is a reflection. It is kind of a scar in a sense.

But also just by having the surgery was kind of a gift also because I was able to understand my instrument. No one ever explained that to me. I sat in a room with the piano and did scales and shit, but no one taught me about how do you have longevity? You are in here with athletes all the time and recovery days are the most important days.