Miley Cyrus has reflected on the way getting sober has impacted her "entire life".
After undergoing vocal cord surgery in late 2019, the Wrecking Ball hitmaker revealed she had given up alcohol and marijuana.
During an interview with Apple Music 1's Zane Lowe on Wednesday, Miley discussed how giving up substances paved the way for her to make her hit 2023 album, Endless Summer Vacation.
"I've learned this about myself over the years," she began. "The sobriety is like, that's like my God. I need it, I live for it. I mean that it's changed my entire life."
Miley went on to recall how she had a blip on her sobriety journey around the time she released her seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, in November 2020.
"I know I needed to fall one more time," the 32-year-old explained. "I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here. There were times in that section... I'm not proud of them. Definitely not my best moments, not some of my best work, any of that. But it all led me to writing Flowers, which then was some sort of key right into the lock of all healing."
Elsewhere in the conversation, Miley opened up about how working on her 2023 single Flowers and receiving Record of the Year for the popular track at the 2024 Grammy Awards was "healing".
"I think somewhere inside of me, maybe my ego or maybe the amount of time I dedicated myself to it, I needed maybe to hold a trophy and just feel for a moment that I have something that I can hold in my hands that feels like a true achievement. And so, at the Grammys, that's why I went, it was actually for healing," she noted, adding that she was pleased she attended the ceremony despite some initial hesitation. "There was somewhere that I was avoiding this, the fact that it did matter to me somewhere. And so, once I received my Grammy, I was like, 'Look, when you Google me, it says Miley Cyrus, a Grammy Award-winning artist.'"
Miley's new album, Something Beautiful, is set to drop on 30 May.