Miley Cyrus discusses how her life and art became metaphors for each other after a difficult year where many negative things happened, including health issues and the death of her dog. She says she took all the "shitty" things that kept happening and turned them into inspiration for her art by using junk and other materials to create things that made her happy, rather than letting the negative experiences bring her down.

1. Professional vs.
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10. MILEY CYRUS
“DIRTY HIPPY”
WITH JEREMY SCOTT

14. "This seems so f---ing lame to say but I feel like my art became kind
of a metaphor—an example of my life,” she told the magazine.
“Because a bunch of s—-y things kept happening. I’ve always been
so f—ing lucky. Everything has always just been easy for me.And at
the beginning of this year, I hated 2014 because everything that
could go wrong kept going wrong. Being in the hospital, my dog
dying…Everything just kept sh—ing on me and sh—ing on me. So
then I started taking all of those s— things and making them good,
and being like, I’m using it. My brother and my friends all said that’s
what they felt I was doing. So, that’s how I started making art. I had a
bunch of f—ing junk and s—, and so instead of letting it be junk and
s—, I turned it into something that made me happy.”