1 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:07,716 [laid-back jazz playing] 2 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:09,467 [indistinct chatter] 3 00:00:15,724 --> 00:00:17,726 [cheering and applause] 4 00:00:26,151 --> 00:00:30,030 You were gonna introduce me, but I'm gonna introduce you. 5 00:00:30,113 --> 00:00:31,948 [laughter] 6 00:00:32,449 --> 00:00:33,908 David Letterman is here. 7 00:00:33,992 --> 00:00:35,994 [cheering and applause] 8 00:00:37,078 --> 00:00:40,498 In true spirit, David Letterman asked me to be on his show, 9 00:00:40,582 --> 00:00:42,167 but I like to do things my own way, 10 00:00:42,250 --> 00:00:46,546 and so I turned it around on him and said, "You can be in my show," 11 00:00:46,629 --> 00:00:48,381 so this is my show. 12 00:00:48,465 --> 00:00:51,509 How extra do you think I can be on this round of the song? 13 00:00:51,593 --> 00:00:55,805 Should I try to be, like… like… like, as extra as I can? 14 00:00:55,889 --> 00:00:57,432 [cheering] 15 00:00:57,515 --> 00:00:58,349 Okay. 16 00:00:58,850 --> 00:01:00,685 [theme music playing] 17 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:12,572 [jazz combo playing] 18 00:01:16,659 --> 00:01:19,162 My biggest fear used to be, like, getting fired, 19 00:01:19,245 --> 00:01:20,663 and now how good does that sound? 20 00:01:20,747 --> 00:01:22,874 Every time someone's like, "They might kick you…" 21 00:01:22,957 --> 00:01:25,919 "Maybe they don't want you to do this anymore." I'm like, "Thank God." 22 00:01:26,002 --> 00:01:28,671 I never wanted to do it. I don't know why I was doing it. 23 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:30,715 "Oh, guess what? It's been canceled." 24 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:31,633 -[Miley] Yeah. -"Oh!" 25 00:01:31,716 --> 00:01:33,343 There's nothing I love more. Not gonna lie. 26 00:01:33,426 --> 00:01:35,553 When they said, "It's gonna rain," I'm like, "How much?" 27 00:01:35,637 --> 00:01:39,432 Have you ever talked yourself out of things you wish you had not? 28 00:01:39,516 --> 00:01:43,103 Have you talked yourself into things you wish you had not? 29 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:45,897 I almost talked myself out of sitting here talking to you, 30 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:47,982 and I'm serious. I mean, I always know-- 31 00:01:48,066 --> 00:01:50,777 Now, wait a minute! Why would you talk yourself out of this? 32 00:01:50,860 --> 00:01:53,321 'Cause I do have a bit of, um… 33 00:01:54,239 --> 00:01:57,951 I guess, just, like, caution talking about, like, me, 34 00:01:58,034 --> 00:02:02,080 and I feel that if I was gonna sit here in a place like Chateau, 35 00:02:02,163 --> 00:02:04,332 which is like another home for me, in front of this fire, 36 00:02:04,415 --> 00:02:06,334 in a setting that's supposed to be honest, 37 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:09,462 I'd wanna be, and I'd wanna be… I'd wanna be safe 38 00:02:09,546 --> 00:02:13,216 because so much of my life, I feel I've been unsafe 39 00:02:13,299 --> 00:02:15,343 because the large crowds, 40 00:02:15,426 --> 00:02:17,679 the, like, chasing of the tour buses. 41 00:02:17,762 --> 00:02:20,431 I mean, there's been so much for me that the… 42 00:02:20,515 --> 00:02:22,183 so much of "the show must go on," 43 00:02:22,267 --> 00:02:25,061 and I realize now the show can go on. 44 00:02:25,562 --> 00:02:29,607 But "the show must go on"? Like, that, I can't live by anymore. 45 00:02:29,691 --> 00:02:31,526 Um… And that's what I told them at the Grammys 46 00:02:31,609 --> 00:02:35,405 was that, once I did the dress rehearsal, the day before the show, 47 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:37,949 I went to the producers, and they said, "Are you happy with it?" 48 00:02:38,032 --> 00:02:40,285 I go, "Yeah. I think I'm gonna do it," 49 00:02:40,368 --> 00:02:42,620 and all of them looked like they were gonna vomit. 50 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:45,039 They were like, "What do you mean you think you're gonna do it?" 51 00:02:45,123 --> 00:02:47,750 I was like, "Well, I'm still… like, you know, I think so." 52 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:49,961 And they could not believe that I was saying that 53 00:02:50,044 --> 00:02:53,006 because obviously "Flowers" was gonna be a real staple point in the show. 54 00:02:53,089 --> 00:02:55,466 It was kind of important that I actually do it. 55 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:57,093 So that night at the Grammys, 56 00:02:57,177 --> 00:03:01,097 it seemed like an enormous celebration of women in music now. 57 00:03:01,181 --> 00:03:04,475 Are you friends with all of those women? Do you get together and… 58 00:03:04,559 --> 00:03:08,188 I am not very active, I would say, 59 00:03:08,271 --> 00:03:11,608 or very a part of my community 60 00:03:11,691 --> 00:03:14,861 of other, like, artists and entertainers and celebrities. 61 00:03:14,944 --> 00:03:17,989 It just doesn't feel like my people when I'm in that room. 62 00:03:18,072 --> 00:03:20,742 But there are certain, um… artists and… 63 00:03:21,242 --> 00:03:25,205 Like Beyoncé who I've… I mean, like us. 64 00:03:25,288 --> 00:03:27,540 We've known each other for a long time. 65 00:03:27,624 --> 00:03:29,959 When I was probably 15, 66 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:32,587 I performed with Beyoncé and all the girls. 67 00:03:32,670 --> 00:03:37,300 I was, like, sandwiched between Rihanna and the Queen Bey, 68 00:03:37,383 --> 00:03:41,554 and they're fully grown up, gorgeous, like, probably similar to my age now, 69 00:03:41,638 --> 00:03:44,098 towering over me, completely stunning. 70 00:03:44,182 --> 00:03:48,978 I'm, like, super small, have acne, have braces on the back of my teeth, 71 00:03:49,062 --> 00:03:52,023 and I'm standing next to Mariah Carey, who's dripping in diamonds, 72 00:03:52,106 --> 00:03:55,068 and Beyoncé was so kind to me, 73 00:03:55,151 --> 00:03:57,445 and I've now, just from seeing her, 74 00:03:57,528 --> 00:04:00,114 I've created, like, a relationship, 75 00:04:00,198 --> 00:04:02,367 maybe a bit more in depth. 76 00:04:02,450 --> 00:04:04,035 We haven't ever had this conversation, 77 00:04:04,118 --> 00:04:07,372 so now maybe you and I might be more friends than I'm friends with Beyoncé, 78 00:04:07,455 --> 00:04:10,750 but Beyoncé and I have just… I've just… 79 00:04:10,833 --> 00:04:12,752 The kindness and consistency is everything, 80 00:04:12,835 --> 00:04:15,171 so I'm a part of my community in that way, but I… 81 00:04:15,255 --> 00:04:18,633 again, it's all quality, not quantity. I'm not very active in that. 82 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:22,971 I know this is your show, but it reminds me of a story. 83 00:04:23,054 --> 00:04:25,723 -You know who Johnny Carson is? -Mm-hmm. Of course. 84 00:04:25,807 --> 00:04:27,600 And, to me, Johnny Carson… 85 00:04:28,184 --> 00:04:30,436 The first time I did The Tonight Show, 86 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,439 he's here and I'm there, and you look over, 87 00:04:33,523 --> 00:04:36,150 and it's like you're on a bus, and you recognize, 88 00:04:36,234 --> 00:04:39,946 "I've seen this guy on the $5 bill. Holy shit. That's Abe Lincoln!" 89 00:04:40,029 --> 00:04:41,155 -It was like that. -Yeah. 90 00:04:41,239 --> 00:04:43,283 -And that never went away. -Yeah. 91 00:04:43,366 --> 00:04:46,286 And, for some reason, essentially misguided, 92 00:04:46,369 --> 00:04:49,080 he would then invite me to dinner. 93 00:04:49,163 --> 00:04:52,333 We'd go out to dinner, and the last time we got together, 94 00:04:52,417 --> 00:04:54,669 we toured up and down the Hudson on his yacht. 95 00:04:54,752 --> 00:04:56,504 -There you go. -That's it! 96 00:04:56,587 --> 00:04:59,549 -And I hated every minute of it. -See, Beyoncé has a yacht too. 97 00:04:59,632 --> 00:05:02,010 So out of everyone I picked to be friends with at the Grammys, 98 00:05:02,093 --> 00:05:03,636 I picked the one that has a yacht. 99 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,638 You and I are alike. I'm telling you! 100 00:05:05,722 --> 00:05:08,141 -Like twins, for heaven's sake. -We have similarities. 101 00:05:08,224 --> 00:05:10,601 [relaxed Latin music playing] 102 00:05:11,185 --> 00:05:12,437 -[Letterman] Oh, Miley? -Yes? 103 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:18,443 Uh… How is this different than the process before a touring event? 104 00:05:18,526 --> 00:05:20,528 Well, I'm not in a locker room. 105 00:05:20,611 --> 00:05:23,489 -I'm in, like, a beautiful… -Really? 106 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:25,074 …historical hotel. 107 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,534 That makes sense. Sporting arenas. 108 00:05:26,617 --> 00:05:28,202 Usually, you're in a locker room, 109 00:05:28,286 --> 00:05:30,246 and they tell you to wear flip-flops in the shower, 110 00:05:30,330 --> 00:05:31,664 or you're gonna get fungus foot. 111 00:05:32,540 --> 00:05:34,208 They're like, "It's so cool you're here." 112 00:05:34,292 --> 00:05:36,044 "The whole football team, this is their room." 113 00:05:36,127 --> 00:05:40,548 I'm like, "I don't wanna be showering where the whole football team…" 114 00:05:40,631 --> 00:05:45,470 If you had to, uh, do this for the rest of your… 115 00:05:45,553 --> 00:05:49,223 let's say the next four years, small venues around the country, 116 00:05:49,307 --> 00:05:51,851 shows like we're about to see here tonight, 117 00:05:51,934 --> 00:05:53,603 would that be okay? 118 00:05:53,686 --> 00:05:58,816 I think, like, boredom is torture for me. 119 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:02,779 And so, I wouldn't want to commit to four years, 120 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:04,697 just in case I get bored. 121 00:06:04,781 --> 00:06:06,240 -Right. -Um… 122 00:06:06,324 --> 00:06:09,911 But you're still… you're still doing what you like to do, which is perform. 123 00:06:09,994 --> 00:06:11,954 But sometimes, after two and a half years, 124 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:14,665 maybe you don't like it as much as two and a half years before. 125 00:06:14,749 --> 00:06:17,335 So you might stop altogether. You wouldn't then decide, 126 00:06:17,418 --> 00:06:19,170 "I need to go back to Madison Square Garden." 127 00:06:19,253 --> 00:06:22,632 Or maybe the Ritz or the Four Seasons, somewhere else with a nice room, 128 00:06:22,715 --> 00:06:24,801 but at some point, you know, the secret will be out 129 00:06:24,884 --> 00:06:27,637 'cause, right now, it's an invite-only, you know? 130 00:06:28,137 --> 00:06:31,099 It's very exclusive, and so right now it's sacred. 131 00:06:33,393 --> 00:06:35,520 [Letterman] Here we are at the Chateau Marmont. 132 00:06:35,603 --> 00:06:39,315 And this is you. You are of it. What's the appeal? What's the connection? 133 00:06:39,899 --> 00:06:42,944 -It's a delightful place. -It is. Um… 134 00:06:43,027 --> 00:06:45,822 One, I love who walks in the door in this place 135 00:06:45,905 --> 00:06:48,199 because you really never know exactly who that's gonna be. 136 00:06:48,282 --> 00:06:53,830 And obviously, it's a very legendary and iconic hotel in LA, 137 00:06:53,913 --> 00:06:55,373 and that's for a reason. 138 00:06:55,456 --> 00:06:56,833 Built in 1929. 139 00:06:56,916 --> 00:06:59,502 -[Miley] Yeah, a lot of history. -[Letterman] Started as apartments. 140 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:02,672 Now a hotel. A friend of mine, a year ago, 141 00:07:02,755 --> 00:07:04,799 maybe a year ago, was saying, 142 00:07:04,882 --> 00:07:09,095 "Miley is doing shows in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont, 143 00:07:09,178 --> 00:07:11,931 and she's doing this to see…" I don't know. 144 00:07:12,014 --> 00:07:13,599 You were trying to experience something, 145 00:07:13,683 --> 00:07:16,811 and somebody said it was pending the appearance at the Grammys. 146 00:07:16,894 --> 00:07:18,855 -If this went well, maybe you would… -Right. 147 00:07:18,938 --> 00:07:19,856 -Is that true? -Kinda. 148 00:07:19,939 --> 00:07:23,484 Well, so I had a show in Mexico City, 149 00:07:23,568 --> 00:07:27,572 um, a year from the first time I ever played at the Chateau Marmont, 150 00:07:27,655 --> 00:07:29,824 and I had a really tough experience with it. 151 00:07:29,907 --> 00:07:33,035 It was still pretty fresh out of Covid lockdown, 152 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:37,582 um… and it was about 130-plus-thousand people, and-- 153 00:07:37,665 --> 00:07:39,083 [Letterman] Mexico City. 154 00:07:39,167 --> 00:07:42,170 -[Miley] And it was really overwhelming. -[Letterman] Intimate gathering. 155 00:07:42,253 --> 00:07:45,631 Was that the largest headcount for a show for you? 156 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:48,384 Maybe, if not… yeah, if not the closest. 157 00:07:48,468 --> 00:07:52,680 I've toured. I've performed. I've been in stadiums my entire life and-- 158 00:07:52,763 --> 00:07:55,016 -Isn't that crazy? -Being isolated. 159 00:07:55,099 --> 00:07:56,976 In your entire life, you've been in stadiums. 160 00:07:57,059 --> 00:08:00,730 Other than some professional athletes, nobody can make that claim. 161 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:03,191 -Even athletes can't make that claim. -Even when I was a baby… 162 00:08:03,274 --> 00:08:04,108 That's nuts! 163 00:08:04,192 --> 00:08:06,402 [Miley] …my dad would bring me up, like, full Simba 164 00:08:06,486 --> 00:08:09,322 and like, hold me up over the crowd, and… 165 00:08:09,405 --> 00:08:10,865 -Full Simba. -[Miley] Full Simba. 166 00:08:10,948 --> 00:08:13,618 And I actually… I always really loved it. 167 00:08:13,701 --> 00:08:16,162 Um, like, I never cried. It wasn't something I didn't wanna do. 168 00:08:16,245 --> 00:08:18,664 I actually loved it, and by the time I was old enough 169 00:08:18,748 --> 00:08:21,292 to what he calls "escape the nanny," I would, 170 00:08:21,375 --> 00:08:24,837 and I would get myself out there and try to grab the microphone and sing. 171 00:08:24,921 --> 00:08:27,673 So I've always been around, like, large crowds and stadiums, 172 00:08:27,757 --> 00:08:31,719 but then, once I was locked down and went into isolation for over a year, 173 00:08:31,802 --> 00:08:35,765 then being integrated into 130,000-plus people 174 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:37,558 was very overwhelming for me, 175 00:08:37,642 --> 00:08:39,769 and I didn't really know how to process it, 176 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:41,812 and it gave me a lot of anxiety. 177 00:08:41,896 --> 00:08:43,397 But to get to the Chateau, 178 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:47,151 how we got there was that I played the show in Mexico, 179 00:08:47,235 --> 00:08:52,031 and that was in November, and a year later, last November, 180 00:08:52,114 --> 00:08:54,909 was my first Chateau show, and I put this on myself, 181 00:08:54,992 --> 00:08:57,161 and it was a couple days before my birthday, 182 00:08:57,245 --> 00:08:59,247 and my birthday gift to myself 183 00:08:59,330 --> 00:09:02,333 was reclaiming my love of performance and music, 184 00:09:02,416 --> 00:09:05,461 and knowing that music can be 185 00:09:05,545 --> 00:09:08,965 for thousands or millions of people like if you're performing at the Grammys, 186 00:09:09,048 --> 00:09:11,175 but it can just be for your intimate friends and family 187 00:09:11,259 --> 00:09:12,385 or a gift to yourself. 188 00:09:12,468 --> 00:09:15,096 But the same satisfaction, probably more satisfaction, 189 00:09:15,179 --> 00:09:18,558 because just the nature of, "These people now are your friends." 190 00:09:18,641 --> 00:09:19,767 Not your… 191 00:09:19,850 --> 00:09:23,145 I don't know what to call 130,000 people looking at you sing. 192 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:26,315 You knew of the Chateau Marmont before you actually worked in the lobby, right? 193 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:28,150 Yes, I've had a lot of good times here. 194 00:09:28,234 --> 00:09:30,653 That's the other thing it carries. It carries a history. 195 00:09:30,736 --> 00:09:34,574 For me personally, I feel like there's a… 196 00:09:34,657 --> 00:09:38,077 you know, it's kind of like a "if the walls could talk" feeling here. 197 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,998 I saw your face change noticeably when you said you had good times here. 198 00:09:42,081 --> 00:09:44,917 -I did. -In a way that I think I understand. 199 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:46,544 -Yeah, I had good times here. -[chuckles] 200 00:09:46,627 --> 00:09:48,421 [gentle jazz piano playing] 201 00:09:50,047 --> 00:09:53,634 I'm thrilled to get a chance to talk with you, 202 00:09:53,718 --> 00:09:55,886 and I'll tell you why, and it's only peculiar to me, 203 00:09:55,970 --> 00:09:57,805 only interesting to me why I'm thrilled. 204 00:09:57,888 --> 00:10:00,474 I don't think anybody else would understand this dynamic. 205 00:10:00,558 --> 00:10:02,518 -You and I met once before. -Yeah. 206 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:06,897 And I think maybe only once, maybe twice before, but once before, 207 00:10:06,981 --> 00:10:10,067 -I used to do a show on CBS every night. -Yes. 208 00:10:10,151 --> 00:10:12,945 You were a guest on that show, and I think it was 2010. 209 00:10:13,029 --> 00:10:13,904 It was. 210 00:10:13,988 --> 00:10:17,241 Here's the lovely, the talented Miley Cyrus, everyone. 211 00:10:19,118 --> 00:10:20,661 [Miley] I know it was 2010 212 00:10:20,745 --> 00:10:23,581 because of everything that I was wearing and my hairstyle. 213 00:10:23,664 --> 00:10:25,833 -[Letterman] Right. -[Miley] That doesn't happen anymore. 214 00:10:25,916 --> 00:10:27,752 For me or for anyone else. 215 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:29,378 -You were, like, 17, right? -I was. 216 00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:32,715 So I wanna know from you now, what was your perspective? 217 00:10:32,798 --> 00:10:33,966 What were you doing then? 218 00:10:34,050 --> 00:10:39,138 Where were you at 17 that you are… much different place now? 219 00:10:39,221 --> 00:10:43,809 I was so busy at that time in my life as a young person. 220 00:10:43,893 --> 00:10:47,897 -You were still doing the TV show? -Yes, I was still doing the TV show. 221 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:49,106 Toward the end of that run. 222 00:10:49,190 --> 00:10:51,067 Yeah, I think I was just kinda discovering myself 223 00:10:51,150 --> 00:10:53,569 and my, like, own identity outside of the character 224 00:10:53,653 --> 00:10:56,364 'cause I'd almost played a character for as long as I'd been myself. 225 00:10:57,073 --> 00:10:58,824 Um, and that was kind of… 226 00:10:59,408 --> 00:11:02,995 I guess it did change me in the way that I developed 227 00:11:03,579 --> 00:11:06,207 as a character as much as I developed as myself, 228 00:11:06,290 --> 00:11:10,211 so I do feel that I have been interwoven with that character. 229 00:11:10,294 --> 00:11:13,214 That character is almost, like, alive in who I am now. 230 00:11:13,297 --> 00:11:16,425 So yes, I am very different from the person that sat with you 231 00:11:16,509 --> 00:11:17,635 that many years ago. 232 00:11:17,718 --> 00:11:20,971 But also, there's a lot that's still alive and a lot that's still the same. 233 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:26,143 And was it… And this is again just for me. Was it a good experience for you? 234 00:11:26,644 --> 00:11:30,189 -I remember it, but I more so… -[laughs] What an endorsement. 235 00:11:30,272 --> 00:11:34,235 Listen to this. I just remember that I had on something 236 00:11:34,318 --> 00:11:39,156 that, like, was very… what I thought was super cool in 2010. 237 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,494 And now, when I see photographs of, like, me sitting next to you, 238 00:11:43,577 --> 00:11:46,455 um… I don't ever need to do my hair like that ever again. 239 00:11:46,539 --> 00:11:50,167 -Probably the same is true for me. -Or wear flared leather pants. I was… 240 00:11:50,251 --> 00:11:53,129 I just wanted people to know that I wasn't Hannah Montana, 241 00:11:53,212 --> 00:11:54,380 and I think, you know, 242 00:11:54,463 --> 00:11:58,884 Hannah's silhouette was kind of like a puffy skirt and Doc Martens, 243 00:11:58,968 --> 00:12:02,930 and I wanted to make sure everyone knew that I was not that person. 244 00:12:03,013 --> 00:12:04,932 Was this the beginning or the nascent part, 245 00:12:05,015 --> 00:12:08,853 or were you well into kind of taking yourself out of that identity? 246 00:12:08,936 --> 00:12:11,814 I think, when I met you, I was probably 247 00:12:13,274 --> 00:12:16,569 a year or two into my… 248 00:12:16,652 --> 00:12:17,903 -The departure? -Yeah. 249 00:12:17,987 --> 00:12:22,199 I hadn't quite left the show, but I had started experiencing life. 250 00:12:22,283 --> 00:12:24,952 Like, I had definitely been drunk by the time I saw you. 251 00:12:25,035 --> 00:12:27,163 I had drank, I had probably smoked some pot, 252 00:12:27,246 --> 00:12:30,082 and I remember, actually, there was, like, a producer on set. 253 00:12:30,166 --> 00:12:34,879 And he said, "I can tell that this lion is not going to go back into the cage," 254 00:12:34,962 --> 00:12:38,132 because I had just found a wildness in myself, 255 00:12:38,215 --> 00:12:39,592 and I never thought about it. 256 00:12:39,675 --> 00:12:41,761 "This lion is not going back in the cage." 257 00:12:41,844 --> 00:12:44,180 And I just remember everything changed 258 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:48,058 when I started just, like, experiencing my life. 259 00:12:48,142 --> 00:12:50,394 -And then-- -Stuff that 17-year-olds might experience. 260 00:12:50,478 --> 00:12:52,938 -Yes. -[soft jazz playing] 261 00:12:56,692 --> 00:13:00,613 You thought of yourself as being wide open when you were much younger. 262 00:13:00,696 --> 00:13:02,031 -Yeah. -You wanted to be open. 263 00:13:02,114 --> 00:13:05,117 You felt that that proved your honesty to yourself, to the world. 264 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:08,120 It's all I knew. All I've ever known is honesty. 265 00:13:08,204 --> 00:13:10,873 My parents, my mother, who you'll meet later… 266 00:13:10,956 --> 00:13:13,417 -Tish. -Tish. She is just honest. 267 00:13:13,501 --> 00:13:16,337 And she doesn't know how to be any other way but herself. 268 00:13:16,420 --> 00:13:18,631 My mom is just the warmest, 269 00:13:18,714 --> 00:13:22,384 most charismatic, bubbly, honest person, 270 00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:25,429 um, and I do think I inherited that from her, 271 00:13:25,513 --> 00:13:27,014 but everything I felt, 272 00:13:27,097 --> 00:13:31,477 I just thought was meant to be shared because it was honest. 273 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,273 And now I've learned that Dolly, who is my godmother, kinda does it best. 274 00:13:36,357 --> 00:13:38,108 She is Dolly. 275 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:41,111 She is herself, but there are layers. 276 00:13:41,195 --> 00:13:43,113 Um… That creates this, like… 277 00:13:43,614 --> 00:13:47,785 We feel, like, so close to her, but we don't feel like we just know her. 278 00:13:47,868 --> 00:13:51,622 Um… There are still things that stay sacred to her. 279 00:13:51,705 --> 00:13:55,709 -Um, including parts of our relationship. -Well, let's talk about Dolly. 280 00:13:55,793 --> 00:13:57,795 'Cause it's hard to bring up Dolly Parton. 281 00:13:57,878 --> 00:14:00,422 -And then sweep it. -Just like, "That Dolly Parton?" 282 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:02,383 "No, not that Dolly Parton." 283 00:14:02,466 --> 00:14:05,636 Uh, the relationship began when you were a tiny kid, 284 00:14:05,719 --> 00:14:07,805 three years old, five years old, eight years old. 285 00:14:07,888 --> 00:14:11,350 So I don't remember our first meeting. I was so young. 286 00:14:11,433 --> 00:14:14,979 My dad and her worked together in the '90s, and then… 287 00:14:15,062 --> 00:14:17,648 When you say "worked together," they would tour? Concerts? 288 00:14:17,731 --> 00:14:21,110 Yeah, they had music together, and I think my dad even toured with her. 289 00:14:21,193 --> 00:14:25,197 And so then when she played my aunt, she played my godmother on the TV show, 290 00:14:25,281 --> 00:14:26,365 it just fit. 291 00:14:26,448 --> 00:14:32,121 This is what I mean by my character actually seeped into who I really am. 292 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:35,416 There is a part of… Because I was developing 293 00:14:35,499 --> 00:14:38,460 as a human during that time of playing a character, 294 00:14:38,544 --> 00:14:40,462 parts of me, I don't really know the difference. 295 00:14:40,546 --> 00:14:41,964 Parts of me are that character, 296 00:14:42,047 --> 00:14:45,092 including a little bit of my relationship… with Dolly. 297 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:48,095 I mean, Hannah Montana is famous for wearing a blond wig 298 00:14:48,178 --> 00:14:51,891 and kinda having this other persona that she can turn off 299 00:14:51,974 --> 00:14:54,143 and be a regular girl by day 300 00:14:54,226 --> 00:14:56,186 and have this, like, superstar life at night. 301 00:14:56,270 --> 00:15:00,816 And I realize that's something Dolly has been doing pretty much her entire life. 302 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,193 Now, she's always in the wig, 303 00:15:03,277 --> 00:15:05,279 and she's always in the Dolly. It's not about-- 304 00:15:05,362 --> 00:15:07,823 -"She's in the Dolly." -She's always in the Dolly! 305 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:13,245 It's not about the external, like, performance 306 00:15:13,329 --> 00:15:14,788 of her creating this character. 307 00:15:14,872 --> 00:15:17,833 So we do know, you've described aptly what we know of her, 308 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:22,463 which is, I think, 360 degrees but not completely 360 degrees. 309 00:15:22,546 --> 00:15:26,342 Tell us something that we would… that we would have to catch our breath 310 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:27,801 to learn about Dolly. 311 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:30,054 -I mean, first of all, Dollywood. -Yeah. 312 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:32,640 They're just printing money over there, aren't they? 313 00:15:32,723 --> 00:15:34,683 Dollywood, one of the things I could share 314 00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:37,603 she really eats Dollywood food, like often. 315 00:15:37,686 --> 00:15:40,356 If she asked me what I want for lunch, it's like… 316 00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:42,274 She eats the Dollywood food. 317 00:15:42,358 --> 00:15:45,986 I think the thing I could tell you about Dolly, um… 318 00:15:46,654 --> 00:15:49,531 without sharing that sacred part of our relationship with everyone 319 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:53,577 is that she isn't afraid to have the tough conversations. 320 00:15:53,661 --> 00:15:55,663 Okay, give us an example of a tough conversation. 321 00:15:55,746 --> 00:15:57,456 A tough conversation I had with her, 322 00:15:57,539 --> 00:16:00,709 I told her, "I'm wondering if I'm gonna do the Grammys or not," 323 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,837 and she said, "Well, of course you're gonna do the Grammys, 324 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:07,007 and you're not just gonna show up, but you're going to show off, 325 00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:09,802 and you're gonna be everything that you are 326 00:16:09,885 --> 00:16:11,845 sitting right here in front of me," and she said, 327 00:16:11,929 --> 00:16:13,514 "And don't forget about the beauty." 328 00:16:13,597 --> 00:16:16,934 "You know, the hair, the makeup, the whole show." 329 00:16:17,017 --> 00:16:22,189 You know, it's armor for us, and, you know, she said to me, like… 330 00:16:22,272 --> 00:16:25,317 She has a good way of saying it. She's always said this to me. 331 00:16:25,401 --> 00:16:28,320 "You do you, and I'll do me, and together, we'll be us." 332 00:16:28,404 --> 00:16:30,072 So she wasn't telling me to be Dolly. 333 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:33,075 She wasn't telling me be fabulous, hide behind the sparkles and the hair. 334 00:16:33,158 --> 00:16:36,745 -She was telling me to be me. -[upbeat acoustic guitar music playing] 335 00:16:38,622 --> 00:16:41,333 What I was gonna say about glam that I think it's kinda interesting, 336 00:16:41,417 --> 00:16:42,835 'cause I know you studied-- 337 00:16:42,918 --> 00:16:46,005 You refer to it as glam, but this is just makeup is what we're talkin' about. 338 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:48,215 But there's a, like we said, an intention here. 339 00:16:48,298 --> 00:16:49,717 -I just got a dirty look… -It's glam! 340 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,971 -…from this man! He looked at me like… -"It's not makeup!" 341 00:16:54,054 --> 00:16:56,432 -"It's glam!" -I'm so sorry! 342 00:16:56,515 --> 00:16:59,685 But, you know, you had to study me before we had this conversation. 343 00:16:59,768 --> 00:17:01,186 I've done some studying of you, 344 00:17:01,270 --> 00:17:04,148 and you've kind of looked the same for, like, a really long time. 345 00:17:04,231 --> 00:17:07,192 -Is that good or bad? -Well, it's not either. It's just a fact. 346 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,987 Well, it depends on how you looked like in the beginning. 347 00:17:10,070 --> 00:17:12,448 [Miley] Well, what I mean is 348 00:17:12,531 --> 00:17:15,784 getting ready is something that's very familiar to me, 349 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,619 something I've been doing all my life. 350 00:17:17,703 --> 00:17:21,040 It's something that I know as much or more than I know anything else. 351 00:17:21,123 --> 00:17:24,460 I mean, I've been getting ready longer than I've been driving. 352 00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:25,878 Like, I know getting ready. 353 00:17:25,961 --> 00:17:27,212 -[Letterman] Mm-hmm. -You know? 354 00:17:27,296 --> 00:17:31,425 Let me ask you, "Destiny Hope Cyrus." 355 00:17:31,508 --> 00:17:33,719 -[Miley] Yes. -What was goin' on there? 356 00:17:34,762 --> 00:17:37,681 -Uh… What do you mean "What was going on"? -[Letterman] That's a… 357 00:17:37,765 --> 00:17:41,602 -It's a big shoe to fill. -Well, that's what I'm… striving for. 358 00:17:41,685 --> 00:17:44,521 -[Miley] Well… -Did your folks ever explain that to you? 359 00:17:44,605 --> 00:17:48,067 My parents thought it was my destiny to bring hope to the world. 360 00:17:48,150 --> 00:17:50,194 -[Letterman] That's lovely. -It is lovely. 361 00:17:50,277 --> 00:17:53,322 -But a lot to load on a kid. -[Miley] It is a lot, and by the time… 362 00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:55,532 But I do think that, 363 00:17:56,450 --> 00:18:00,579 from the beginning, it set an intention, which we don't always have. 364 00:18:00,662 --> 00:18:03,499 I mean, sometimes the intention of having children is just, 365 00:18:03,582 --> 00:18:05,501 "I wonder what me and my partner would look like…" 366 00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:07,461 -[car horn honks] -"…if we mixed together." Hey! 367 00:18:07,544 --> 00:18:10,047 -[chuckles] I'll be right out! -[Miley] Um… [chuckles] 368 00:18:10,130 --> 00:18:12,091 -[chuckles] Your Uber is waiting. -[Letterman] Yes! 369 00:18:12,174 --> 00:18:13,801 I knew you weren't gonna stay for the show! 370 00:18:14,843 --> 00:18:15,844 Should I get my mom? 371 00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:20,140 Okay, Mom. I can't talk anymore 'cause I'm getting my lips done. 372 00:18:20,224 --> 00:18:21,809 Can you come take over? 373 00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:23,977 Should I be worried about your mother arriving? 374 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:27,147 No, she knows we're talking about glam, and if you talk about glam… 375 00:18:27,231 --> 00:18:29,191 -Uh-huh. -[Miley] …we got things to say. 376 00:18:29,274 --> 00:18:31,944 -[Tish] I'm like, "Did I hear glam?" -[Miley] You heard glam! 377 00:18:32,027 --> 00:18:33,654 "Did somebody say glam?" 378 00:18:33,737 --> 00:18:34,696 -[Letterman] Hi. -Hi. 379 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,198 -[Tish] How are you? -Who are you? 380 00:18:36,281 --> 00:18:38,992 [Tish] Who are you? You're cute. 381 00:18:39,076 --> 00:18:41,495 Oh! Oh my… 382 00:18:41,578 --> 00:18:44,164 Well, Miley said… I said, "I'm a little scared," 383 00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:46,542 and she goes, "Just flirt with him." I said, "That's easy." 384 00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:48,585 This is… This is your mother! 385 00:18:48,669 --> 00:18:50,337 -[Tish chuckles] -[Miley] What? It works! 386 00:18:50,838 --> 00:18:52,506 It's called emotional manipulation. 387 00:18:52,589 --> 00:18:54,383 It works every time. Women are so good at it. 388 00:18:54,466 --> 00:18:56,093 -Here, sit down, Mom. -[Tish] Okay. 389 00:18:56,176 --> 00:18:59,096 -Uh… Wow. Nice meeting you. -[Tish] Nice meeting you. 390 00:18:59,179 --> 00:19:01,598 Thank… thank you for the, uh, time, 391 00:19:01,682 --> 00:19:04,393 uh, with your daughter and yourself. 392 00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:06,353 I would not have missed it. 393 00:19:06,436 --> 00:19:08,105 -I was-- -[Miley] That's not true! 394 00:19:08,188 --> 00:19:10,732 -Well, that isn't true. -[Miley] She was gonna try to miss it. 395 00:19:10,816 --> 00:19:13,777 She called me last night and was like… No, she sent me a text, 396 00:19:13,861 --> 00:19:16,405 [in Southern accent] "Hey, MC. I really hope you can understand." 397 00:19:16,488 --> 00:19:18,782 "I just don't think I can do Letterman tomorrow." 398 00:19:18,866 --> 00:19:21,618 -"I'm so nervous about it." -[Letterman] I get that from my family. 399 00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:22,744 [Tish] Yeah. 400 00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:26,331 Everything I know of you is… is amazing 401 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:29,418 because, um, to work with a family member, 402 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:31,461 uh, your young daughter, 403 00:19:31,545 --> 00:19:36,717 and to… to oversee both aspects, multiple aspects of that existence 404 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,261 and still maintain a friendly, happy relationship 405 00:19:39,344 --> 00:19:42,347 is remarkable and a great, I think, testament to you. 406 00:19:42,431 --> 00:19:44,558 And how does one do that? 407 00:19:45,225 --> 00:19:47,978 She must've been incorrigible at some point. 408 00:19:48,061 --> 00:19:52,566 Listen, there were times that she was doing crazy stuff 409 00:19:52,649 --> 00:19:54,318 that every child does. 410 00:19:54,401 --> 00:19:56,904 "That every child does." That's the part they leave out. 411 00:19:56,987 --> 00:20:01,825 But I also read that she had a curfew until she was 20. 412 00:20:01,909 --> 00:20:03,660 -[Tish] She did. -Now, that's inhumane. 413 00:20:03,744 --> 00:20:06,663 Amnesty International would come investigate that. 414 00:20:06,747 --> 00:20:09,333 -Listen, rules are meant to be broken. -[Tish] Well, that's true. 415 00:20:09,416 --> 00:20:11,543 Just 'cause I had one didn't mean I followed one. 416 00:20:11,627 --> 00:20:12,794 But, honestly, like, that's… 417 00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:16,757 my goal was to keep Miley home as long as possible under my roof. 418 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,510 And honestly, I think my biggest fear was her moving out. 419 00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:23,013 You know, she definitely had financial ways 420 00:20:23,096 --> 00:20:25,307 to be able to move out before she was 18, 421 00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:28,060 and you see that a lot with kids in Hollywood, 422 00:20:28,143 --> 00:20:29,102 but she didn't. 423 00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:33,732 She was at home, and I think I really picked my battles with her. 424 00:20:33,815 --> 00:20:34,942 [Miley] Okay, you two. 425 00:20:35,025 --> 00:20:36,818 Get a room. I gotta get ready. 426 00:20:36,902 --> 00:20:39,696 -Oh my Gosh! -[Miley] What? Sorry. Gotta go. 427 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:41,448 -[Letterman] Yikes! -Well, you know. 428 00:20:41,531 --> 00:20:45,744 Gotta get out of here. I know everything in this room is inventoried. 429 00:20:45,827 --> 00:20:49,706 -[elevator dings] -[jazz piano playing] 430 00:20:50,290 --> 00:20:52,626 The first time you sang "Flowers" was in this building? 431 00:20:52,709 --> 00:20:54,461 -Am I accurate about that? -Yeah. Yeah. 432 00:20:54,544 --> 00:20:58,882 Uh… And why was… Why that venue? Why then? 433 00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:01,593 And tell me about that song, what it… what it means, 434 00:21:01,677 --> 00:21:04,012 and everything else you need to tell me about that song. 435 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:05,264 Okay, this is a good one. 436 00:21:05,347 --> 00:21:11,353 What's special about "Flowers" is that it's a story and a song 437 00:21:11,436 --> 00:21:13,605 that I earned. 438 00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:16,692 The story is honest, um… 439 00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:20,779 and it's not a lottery ticket. 440 00:21:20,862 --> 00:21:23,073 Sometimes, these songs can be lottery tickets. 441 00:21:23,156 --> 00:21:26,034 -What does that mean? -Meaning they fall into your lap somehow. 442 00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:28,495 -Oh, I see. -Like, a song like "Party in the USA." 443 00:21:28,578 --> 00:21:29,830 That was a lottery ticket. 444 00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:32,374 That, out of all the people in the world, 445 00:21:32,457 --> 00:21:34,376 they had written this song, and they found me 446 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:37,379 and thought I was the voice for it, and it doesn't go much deeper than that. 447 00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:40,799 And I think you can tell in the resonance of that song. 448 00:21:40,882 --> 00:21:44,594 You can tell the difference of the depth of a song like "Party in the USA." 449 00:21:44,678 --> 00:21:48,015 Not just in the subject itself, but in the emotional detachment 450 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,433 that I have from that song. 451 00:21:49,516 --> 00:21:53,937 On, like, a song like "Flowers" that I'm extremely emotionally attached to 452 00:21:54,021 --> 00:21:56,523 because I lived every syllable of it. 453 00:21:56,606 --> 00:22:03,363 What I liked about it is that, um… the theme of it is so simple. 454 00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:05,157 It's… It's… It's not, um… 455 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,409 You don't have to think too deeply 456 00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,870 to come up with, "Yeah, but I can buy myself flowers." 457 00:22:09,953 --> 00:22:10,829 Right. 458 00:22:10,912 --> 00:22:13,832 But in practical application, 459 00:22:13,915 --> 00:22:18,378 that's a pretty big stretch when you're up to your nose in that mess. 460 00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:22,507 Yeah, and, well, the thing is, actually, when I wrote "Flowers," 461 00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:24,426 I was going back and forth on the chorus. 462 00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:25,927 At first, we had written, 463 00:22:26,553 --> 00:22:30,349 "I can hold my own hand, but I can't love me like you can," 464 00:22:30,432 --> 00:22:32,476 and it was more kinda 1950s. 465 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:35,020 There was, like, a real sadness to it, 466 00:22:35,103 --> 00:22:38,190 um, and when I went home, I kept going back and forth, 467 00:22:38,273 --> 00:22:41,526 and I really couldn't decide because both felt equally true. 468 00:22:41,610 --> 00:22:43,779 Um, both felt alive in the same way, 469 00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:48,033 and both felt special and honest for people. Um… 470 00:22:48,617 --> 00:22:51,411 There is a difference in having outside love from someone else. 471 00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:53,747 There is a different feeling of buying flowers for yourself 472 00:22:53,830 --> 00:22:56,249 and receiving them from someone that cares about you. There is. 473 00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:58,293 And then, the celebration 474 00:22:58,377 --> 00:23:00,962 that I guess I had never even thought about it that way. 475 00:23:01,046 --> 00:23:04,883 I had never thought so many of the things that we're looking for in a relationship, 476 00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:07,427 we actually can just bring to ourselves, 477 00:23:07,511 --> 00:23:10,639 but first you gotta have not only a healthy relationship with yourself… 478 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:13,183 You gotta love being you. 479 00:23:13,266 --> 00:23:16,186 But it also highlights the things 480 00:23:16,269 --> 00:23:18,688 you might miss about being in that relationship. 481 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:21,983 "I can buy my own flowers. I can hold my own hand." 482 00:23:22,067 --> 00:23:24,486 "Yeah, but that's kinda not what I was hoping for." 483 00:23:24,569 --> 00:23:25,404 -Right? -Yeah. 484 00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:27,656 Totally. That's why it's kind of one of the sadder… 485 00:23:27,739 --> 00:23:30,367 I think it's one of the sadder songs that I've actually ever written. 486 00:23:30,450 --> 00:23:34,329 Was it cathartic? Did you… Did it put you in a different place? 487 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:36,706 I'm tellin' you, writing it feels one way, 488 00:23:36,790 --> 00:23:42,963 but having it loved, and so loved, feels entirely different. 489 00:23:43,046 --> 00:23:47,092 I've actually never felt so proud of a song for doing well, 490 00:23:47,175 --> 00:23:49,469 and I guess it's what we talked about, the lottery ticket. 491 00:23:49,553 --> 00:23:51,179 It's because it was earned, 492 00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:54,891 it feels different when people really relate to it. 493 00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:57,352 -The response to it was overwhelming. -Yeah. 494 00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:59,020 -[applause] -How's everybody doing? 495 00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:00,230 Having a good time? 496 00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:02,190 [cheering] 497 00:24:05,235 --> 00:24:07,154 ♪ We were good ♪ 498 00:24:08,321 --> 00:24:09,531 ♪ Gold ♪ 499 00:24:10,198 --> 00:24:14,327 ♪ Kinda dream that can't be sold ♪ 500 00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:16,746 ♪ Oh, we were right ♪ 501 00:24:17,414 --> 00:24:19,708 ♪ Till we weren't ♪ 502 00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:21,501 ♪ Built a home ♪ 503 00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:24,004 ♪ Then watched it burn ♪ 504 00:24:24,713 --> 00:24:27,841 ♪ Ooh, yeah, I didn't wanna leave you ♪ 505 00:24:27,924 --> 00:24:29,968 ♪ I didn't wanna fight ♪ 506 00:24:30,051 --> 00:24:32,304 ♪ I started to cry ♪ 507 00:24:32,387 --> 00:24:34,014 ♪ Then remembered… ♪ 508 00:24:34,097 --> 00:24:35,515 I'm in Alaïa. 509 00:24:35,599 --> 00:24:39,519 ♪ I can buy myself flowers ♪ 510 00:24:40,312 --> 00:24:43,940 ♪ Write my name in the sand ♪ 511 00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:48,904 ♪ Talk to myself for hours ♪ 512 00:24:49,654 --> 00:24:54,201 ♪ Say things you don't understand, oh-oh ♪ 513 00:24:54,701 --> 00:24:59,706 ♪ Oh, I can take myself dancing Yeah-eh-eh ♪ 514 00:24:59,789 --> 00:25:02,709 ♪ I can hold my own hand ♪ 515 00:25:03,293 --> 00:25:10,217 ♪ Yeah, I can love me better Than you can, babe ♪ 516 00:25:17,641 --> 00:25:21,895 ♪ Paint my nails cherry red ♪ 517 00:25:22,437 --> 00:25:26,525 ♪ Match the roses that you left ♪ 518 00:25:26,608 --> 00:25:28,860 ♪ Ooh, no remorse ♪ 519 00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:31,905 ♪ Oh, I've got no regrets, babe, uh ♪ 520 00:25:31,988 --> 00:25:35,325 ♪ I forgive every word you said… ♪ 521 00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:36,701 But I won't forget. 522 00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:39,829 ♪ That I didn't wanna leave you, baby ♪ 523 00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:42,123 ♪ Yeah, I didn't wanna fight ♪ 524 00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:45,085 ♪ I started to cry, then… ♪ 525 00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:47,921 Remembered that I'm with all of you. 526 00:25:48,004 --> 00:25:51,550 ♪ I can buy myself flowers ♪ 527 00:25:52,384 --> 00:25:56,096 ♪ Yeah, write my name in the sand ♪ 528 00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:01,351 ♪ Talk to myself for hours ♪ 529 00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:05,689 ♪ Say things you don't understand ♪ 530 00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:11,903 ♪ I can take myself dancing All night long ♪ 531 00:26:11,987 --> 00:26:14,990 ♪ I can hold my own hand ♪ 532 00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:21,746 ♪ Ooh, 'cause I can love me better Than you can ♪ 533 00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:26,418 ♪ Can love me better I can love me better, baby ♪ 534 00:26:26,501 --> 00:26:31,214 ♪ Can love me better I can love me better, babe ♪ 535 00:26:31,298 --> 00:26:36,219 ♪ Can love me better I can love me better, babe ♪ 536 00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,306 ♪ Can love me better, I ♪ 537 00:26:40,765 --> 00:26:42,475 ♪ I didn't wanna leave you… ♪ 538 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:43,393 Had to. 539 00:26:43,476 --> 00:26:45,061 ♪ I didn't wanna fight ♪ 540 00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:50,191 ♪ Started to cry, then remembered I ♪ 541 00:26:51,151 --> 00:26:56,031 ♪ I can buy myself flowers, yeah, yeah ♪ 542 00:26:56,114 --> 00:27:00,577 ♪ Write my name in the sand, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 543 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:05,540 ♪ Talk to myself for hours, oh-oh ♪ 544 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:08,585 ♪ Say things you don't understand ♪ 545 00:27:08,668 --> 00:27:10,629 ♪ But you never will ♪ 546 00:27:10,712 --> 00:27:15,383 ♪ Oh, I can take myself dancing Yeah-eh-eh ♪ 547 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:19,012 ♪ I can hold my own hand, ooh ♪ 548 00:27:19,095 --> 00:27:23,975 ♪ 'Cause I can love me better than ♪ 549 00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:28,938 ♪ Yeah, I can love me better than 550 00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:32,192 ♪ You can ♪ 551 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:35,820 ♪ Oh… oh-oh-oh ♪ 552 00:27:38,114 --> 00:27:41,451 ♪ Than you can ♪ 553 00:27:41,951 --> 00:27:45,872 ♪ Oh… oh-oh ♪ 554 00:27:46,623 --> 00:27:47,791 ♪ Ah ♪ 555 00:27:48,792 --> 00:27:50,794 [cheering and applause] 556 00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:56,925 There's a quote that I heard from you that I don't fully understand. 557 00:27:57,008 --> 00:28:01,221 Uh, "I'm a creative person, but I also know I was created," and… 558 00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:02,555 -We all are. -Yes. 559 00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:05,225 So explain how that works. What does that mean? 560 00:28:05,308 --> 00:28:08,520 So I was born creative. I know this. 561 00:28:08,603 --> 00:28:10,313 Since I was little, I was writing songs 562 00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:13,316 and kinda like drawing abstract and obscure things. 563 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,859 Like, I'm naturally creative, 564 00:28:15,443 --> 00:28:21,574 but there are different sides or personas to myself, and to everyone, 565 00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:24,202 that some of them, we show to only certain people, 566 00:28:24,285 --> 00:28:26,913 and some of them, we never show to anyone at all. 567 00:28:26,996 --> 00:28:32,001 So I kind of do that on a really public scale, 568 00:28:32,085 --> 00:28:35,839 but I wanted to be clear that that persona or that character is not an alter ego. 569 00:28:35,922 --> 00:28:38,883 It's absolutely an extension of my essence. 570 00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,969 It's my nature. It's who I am. 571 00:28:41,052 --> 00:28:46,766 I just don't have it in me to not live in, like, a truth, 572 00:28:46,850 --> 00:28:49,102 but we all know 573 00:28:49,185 --> 00:28:51,938 that there's a ton of things that can be true at once, 574 00:28:52,021 --> 00:28:53,815 even when they contradict each other. 575 00:28:53,898 --> 00:28:57,068 Can we talk about the early part of your show-business life? 576 00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:00,989 The Hannah Montana of it all. Explain to me how this happens. 577 00:29:01,072 --> 00:29:02,907 Uh, where… How old are you… 578 00:29:02,991 --> 00:29:06,619 There was one audition, and they said, "No, you're too young." 579 00:29:06,703 --> 00:29:07,662 So what happens? 580 00:29:07,746 --> 00:29:10,081 Do they hire somebody older or postpone the whole production? 581 00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:12,709 They did. When they first were doing the casting, 582 00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:15,962 they did not hire me, and they did shoot a pilot with another girl, 583 00:29:16,045 --> 00:29:19,132 and then they showed it to the people. They showed it to children. 584 00:29:19,215 --> 00:29:21,134 -Focus group. -And they weren't relating with her. 585 00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:22,635 -Little brats! -They didn't like her. 586 00:29:22,719 --> 00:29:23,970 I love them for that. 587 00:29:25,054 --> 00:29:28,558 And so then, I was, like, at home in Tennessee growing. 588 00:29:28,641 --> 00:29:31,770 I was, like, trying to get my canine teeth to come down. 589 00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:34,314 -Are you a schoolkid at this point? -I am, yeah. I'm at school. 590 00:29:34,397 --> 00:29:35,231 Yeah. 591 00:29:35,315 --> 00:29:38,777 And, um… they called me, and they said, "Come back out." 592 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:41,696 When you say, "The entire family moves from Tennessee to LA," 593 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:42,864 who are we talking about? 594 00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:45,283 So, at first, it was just me… 595 00:29:45,366 --> 00:29:47,994 My mom is gonna be better at this. I have a terrible memory 596 00:29:48,077 --> 00:29:50,622 because I also inherited the narcissism from my father 597 00:29:50,705 --> 00:29:52,832 that I don't know anything about my siblings, 598 00:29:52,916 --> 00:29:54,751 except for the part that I was doing. 599 00:29:54,834 --> 00:29:56,753 -Wow. -So I… It's true. 600 00:29:56,836 --> 00:29:58,755 It's okay. It's okay. 601 00:29:58,838 --> 00:30:02,133 He… I was moving to LA, and that's all I really knew, 602 00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:04,093 and I was so young, too, that I was just excited 603 00:30:04,177 --> 00:30:05,845 that I was gonna get to be on Disney Channel 604 00:30:05,929 --> 00:30:06,763 because I watched it. 605 00:30:06,846 --> 00:30:09,599 No anxiety about leaving school, leaving friends? 606 00:30:09,682 --> 00:30:12,477 I was so stoked. I did not like being at school. 607 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,687 I had major bullies. I was bullied terribly. 608 00:30:14,771 --> 00:30:16,147 Bullied on what grounds? 609 00:30:16,231 --> 00:30:19,859 Um… When I was in sixth grade, it was definitely hard to… 610 00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:22,195 Just it's… it's hard being a girl in middle school. 611 00:30:22,278 --> 00:30:23,822 You have a son, right? 612 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:26,533 Having a girl, it's a different world. 613 00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:29,160 So middle school, again, not looking my best. 614 00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:31,913 Um, I was also very small, 615 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:35,458 so the bigger girls would kinda like physically push me. 616 00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:37,460 -Yeah. -They were verbally abusive 617 00:30:37,544 --> 00:30:38,795 and actually violent. 618 00:30:38,878 --> 00:30:42,090 And so I was, like, scared to go to the bathroom at school 619 00:30:42,173 --> 00:30:45,009 'cause I'd be scared one of the bullies were going to beat me up, 620 00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:48,972 And I was just… I… I really did not have a pleasant experience in school. 621 00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:52,350 So when… You get there, and now this is… this is Disney, 622 00:30:52,433 --> 00:30:54,811 and… and I was stunned by this fact, 623 00:30:54,894 --> 00:30:58,898 that it was the most successful, um, production, 624 00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:03,611 television-syndicated program, product in their history. 625 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:06,531 -Uh, maybe even more than the mice. -Uh-huh. 626 00:31:06,614 --> 00:31:10,910 And the merchandise, a total of a billion-plus dollars. 627 00:31:10,994 --> 00:31:12,787 So at what point did you think, 628 00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:15,707 "Oh, I'm so lucky. Oh, I'm so lucky. Oh, I'm so lucky"? 629 00:31:15,790 --> 00:31:19,168 Did you begin to realize after that, "I got these bastards by the nose"? 630 00:31:19,252 --> 00:31:22,839 I don't think I did think I had them by the nose, and I'm not… 631 00:31:22,922 --> 00:31:25,592 I guess I did, but we didn't… I didn't know. 632 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:28,386 Like, me and my mom, we're not, like, calculated like that, 633 00:31:28,469 --> 00:31:29,679 and so we didn't really… 634 00:31:29,762 --> 00:31:32,181 I didn't know the power that I had until I was older. 635 00:31:32,265 --> 00:31:35,226 -I actually didn't know that. -Was it fun? It was a lot of work, eh? 636 00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,271 Like I said, it's fun and it's hard, 637 00:31:38,354 --> 00:31:40,231 uh, but it was both. It was both. 638 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:42,358 I mean, I was asked the other day 639 00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:44,485 at a small dinner with my friends… 640 00:31:44,569 --> 00:31:47,572 We were playing this game asking these kind of in-depth questions, 641 00:31:47,655 --> 00:31:50,199 and they asked me what would my perfect life look like. 642 00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:53,995 And my perfect life would kinda be the synopsis of my TV show. 643 00:31:54,078 --> 00:31:57,999 It would be to be normal by day and a superstar by night, 644 00:31:58,082 --> 00:32:01,336 and one of my wishes is to travel the world anonymously, 645 00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:04,339 to be able to walk down and experience cities that I've been to, 646 00:32:04,422 --> 00:32:05,465 but I've been on tour. 647 00:32:05,548 --> 00:32:08,343 That'd be my perfect life, is to be exactly who I am right now, 648 00:32:08,426 --> 00:32:09,928 but to travel anonymously. 649 00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:12,013 [mellow jazz playing] 650 00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:17,810 I hear a lot of people say, in interviews, this, that, and the other, 651 00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:20,396 um… "My father is my hero." 652 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,690 Well, that ain't gonna happen at my house. 653 00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:23,900 Uh-huh. 654 00:32:23,983 --> 00:32:26,069 Did you ever feel that way about your father? 655 00:32:26,152 --> 00:32:27,403 [Miley sighs softly] 656 00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:32,742 I mean, honestly, my mom is my hero, 657 00:32:32,825 --> 00:32:37,288 and, uh… my father, 658 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:40,959 I'm grateful for… 659 00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:43,878 first, his genes. 660 00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:46,589 My dad has great hair, and I got that. 661 00:32:46,673 --> 00:32:49,759 Um, but he also… he has 662 00:32:49,842 --> 00:32:52,804 a relationship and a foot on the ground 663 00:32:52,887 --> 00:32:55,974 to… to, like, the real and to nature, 664 00:32:56,057 --> 00:32:58,476 and he always did, even when he was super famous. 665 00:32:58,559 --> 00:33:03,272 I'm grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me. 666 00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:06,150 He's almost, like, given me this map, 667 00:33:06,234 --> 00:33:09,237 and there is a map of what to do and what not to do, 668 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,906 and he's been… he's guided me on both. 669 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,491 Um… And I do think, 670 00:33:14,617 --> 00:33:17,537 him and I, we have really different upbringings. 671 00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:22,375 The way that my dad was raised, he grew up very poor in a very small town. 672 00:33:22,458 --> 00:33:25,086 His parents were divorced when he was very young. 673 00:33:25,169 --> 00:33:27,839 My dad had a pretty rough childhood, 674 00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:30,216 and my childhood, really… 675 00:33:30,299 --> 00:33:32,844 I mean, we can go and talk about the hard times or the struggles. 676 00:33:32,927 --> 00:33:35,388 Turning in my homework and learning my lines was tough, 677 00:33:35,471 --> 00:33:37,640 but I had food, I had love, 678 00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:41,394 I grew up in a beautiful big house, and my dad didn't have that. 679 00:33:41,477 --> 00:33:44,272 And so I have a lot of empathy and compassion 680 00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:46,315 for his childhood, 681 00:33:46,399 --> 00:33:50,319 which obviously developed to create the man that he is now, 682 00:33:50,403 --> 00:33:52,530 that I have a lot of love for. 683 00:33:52,613 --> 00:33:54,615 But he must've been fundamentally important, 684 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:57,577 the way your mother was in your early career, 685 00:33:58,077 --> 00:34:02,540 uh, and gets credit for… 50%? 686 00:34:02,623 --> 00:34:04,751 The same amount as your mother gets or not? 687 00:34:05,334 --> 00:34:06,753 [Letterman clears his throat] 688 00:34:06,836 --> 00:34:10,423 They're different. They can't be weighed on the same scale, actually. 689 00:34:10,506 --> 00:34:11,382 -Yeah. -Um… 690 00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:14,802 Without my dad, I know… 691 00:34:14,886 --> 00:34:18,556 I mean, not just literally, I wouldn't be sitting in this chair, I wouldn't exist, 692 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:22,518 but I would not, who I am as a person, it wouldn't exist 693 00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:28,483 because my dad as a creative and, like, as an artist, 694 00:34:28,566 --> 00:34:30,443 in the way that his brain works, 695 00:34:30,526 --> 00:34:34,739 has always made me feel safer in my own mind 696 00:34:34,822 --> 00:34:38,034 because we're very similar in some of our ideas. 697 00:34:38,117 --> 00:34:44,082 Um… So I think a lot of, like, his… perspective on reality and on life, 698 00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:48,920 I've inherited from him more so than the way that I was raised, 699 00:34:49,003 --> 00:34:50,505 which, really, my mom raised me. 700 00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:54,967 Is it unlikely that both parents would share equal role 701 00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:56,469 going through your life 702 00:34:56,969 --> 00:35:01,057 um… that it's always gonna be one or the other is… is closer 703 00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:03,976 as things evolve, as things mature, as they… 704 00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:05,812 It's really just not the closeness. 705 00:35:05,895 --> 00:35:10,024 I think it's, like, the capacity in which my mom was raised 706 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:12,944 by a completely intact, beautiful family. 707 00:35:13,027 --> 00:35:16,531 Actually, my mom was adopted, and so my mom was chosen, 708 00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:19,075 and, um, her parents couldn't have children, 709 00:35:19,158 --> 00:35:21,452 so they wanted her more than anything in the world, 710 00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:24,997 and so my mom came into this world being wanted 711 00:35:25,081 --> 00:35:29,919 and being loved and being given the most beautiful life. 712 00:35:30,002 --> 00:35:33,089 Like, my grandmother spoiled not only her but me completely rotten. 713 00:35:33,172 --> 00:35:34,590 My dad didn't have that. 714 00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:38,052 I found that interesting because you come across many times 715 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,471 where it's not only the mother who's important, 716 00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:41,764 but her mother who's important. 717 00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:43,808 My grandma is everything. She's tattooed on my arm. 718 00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:46,269 -Is that right? -She's everything. That's my grandma. 719 00:35:46,352 --> 00:35:49,397 That's my mammy. She ran my fan club until she died, 720 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,442 and she answered every single letter sent by a fan to my fan club 721 00:35:53,526 --> 00:35:55,903 until she died, every single day, all day long. 722 00:35:56,404 --> 00:35:59,574 Uh, so, anyway, to put a period on this, 723 00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:02,618 there's not estrangement here with your father. 724 00:36:02,702 --> 00:36:06,414 It's just kinda the way things are played. 725 00:36:06,497 --> 00:36:08,791 [Miley] Yeah. I think… what is so beautiful 726 00:36:08,875 --> 00:36:12,628 is that my parents, they served their children, and I know this. 727 00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:15,882 My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. 728 00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:18,843 Anything we dreamed of, they made possible. 729 00:36:18,926 --> 00:36:20,928 [upbeat jazz playing] 730 00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:26,184 Where… You're… You're sober, so what does that mean? 731 00:36:26,267 --> 00:36:31,480 I will randomly take maybe one small puff off my mom's joint, 732 00:36:31,564 --> 00:36:33,858 pretty much never because it's way too strong. 733 00:36:33,941 --> 00:36:37,278 My mom gave Wiz Khalifa a panic attack 'cause her weed was too heavy, 734 00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:39,155 so, actually, I retract that statement. 735 00:36:39,238 --> 00:36:42,617 I don't smoke my Mom's weed anymore because the other day I came to her house… 736 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,828 Maybe the last time I smoked her weed was a couple weeks ago, 737 00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:49,040 and I did walk in and take the smallest puff ever, 738 00:36:49,123 --> 00:36:52,793 and I couldn't drive for, like, what felt like three days. 739 00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:55,171 -And I didn't know who I was. -Yikes. 740 00:36:55,254 --> 00:36:57,340 Was she smokin' the whole time you lived with her? 741 00:36:57,423 --> 00:37:00,134 No, so what happened was, actually, we had gotten some weed 742 00:37:00,218 --> 00:37:01,135 while I was on tour. 743 00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,471 Me, the background dancers, the band, and everyone, 744 00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:06,933 and I had told my mom separately, "I think this could be really good for you." 745 00:37:07,016 --> 00:37:09,727 My mom had a lot of anxiety. She had trouble sleeping. 746 00:37:09,810 --> 00:37:12,146 And just in general, she was kinda like high-strung. 747 00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:15,775 I was like, "I think you'll like this." So she goes, "Okay, but don't tell anybody 748 00:37:15,858 --> 00:37:18,152 'cause I'm a good Christian woman. I wanna make sure…" 749 00:37:18,236 --> 00:37:19,153 But she loved it. 750 00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:21,614 She had the best time, and she's smoked weed ever since. 751 00:37:21,697 --> 00:37:24,575 Okay, so now the idea of you being sober… 752 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:28,663 You're sober parenthetically except for the occasional hit on a joint. 753 00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:30,623 Occasional hit on a joint, and that's… 754 00:37:30,706 --> 00:37:34,752 And I… not even! Like, usually, I fake it to be cool for my mom. 755 00:37:34,835 --> 00:37:38,297 -Like, I don't even smoke weed. -Wow, is this upside down! 756 00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:42,551 And I do think CBD has been really helpful for me. Um… 757 00:37:42,635 --> 00:37:45,471 -What effect does that have? -Zero! It doesn't do anything. 758 00:37:45,554 --> 00:37:47,515 That's the point. All my friends that are stoners… 759 00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:49,267 My mom. "My friends that are stoners"! 760 00:37:49,350 --> 00:37:51,686 My mother, she always says, "What's the point of that?" 761 00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:55,273 I'm like, "It's weed, but doesn't get you high." And she's like, "Useless!" 762 00:37:55,356 --> 00:37:59,068 But, uh, you know, it does help me out in some ways. 763 00:37:59,151 --> 00:38:01,362 But the smoke of it all, I don't care what you're smoking, 764 00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:02,989 it's still irritation in your… 765 00:38:03,072 --> 00:38:05,491 -Definitely irritation. -…your lungs, your esophagus, your… 766 00:38:05,574 --> 00:38:09,704 So this is… brings to mind the phrase that my friend Paul Shaffer dearly loves… 767 00:38:09,787 --> 00:38:10,705 Love Paul! 768 00:38:10,788 --> 00:38:12,248 -"Vegas throat." -Yeah. 769 00:38:12,331 --> 00:38:13,791 By the way, Paul loved the experience 770 00:38:13,874 --> 00:38:16,168 of you and he and Bill Murray working together. 771 00:38:16,252 --> 00:38:17,378 I loved that also. 772 00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:21,090 We got to sing in Washington, D.C. with each other also. 773 00:38:21,173 --> 00:38:22,508 -I was there. -You were there? 774 00:38:22,591 --> 00:38:25,136 So you know I've never smoked weed before a concert. 775 00:38:25,219 --> 00:38:28,389 I remember you came up and proudly announced you were gooned. 776 00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:31,309 Well, why the f… Why'd I decide to do that that day? 777 00:38:31,392 --> 00:38:32,268 I don't know. 778 00:38:32,351 --> 00:38:34,854 -Remember I forgot a lotta the words? -I don't remember that. 779 00:38:34,937 --> 00:38:38,441 Then Paul Shaffer, all he said was, "We're doin' that again." 780 00:38:38,524 --> 00:38:40,985 -And we just started over. -That part, I do remember! 781 00:38:41,068 --> 00:38:44,405 I had never done that. The only time I had ever forgotten lyrics to a song… 782 00:38:44,488 --> 00:38:48,034 Another terrible time to do this. I was playing Carnegie Hall with Bono. 783 00:38:48,117 --> 00:38:51,495 -What a dump! -I decided to get wasted the night before. 784 00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:53,497 And I actually said if I ever write a book, 785 00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:56,334 it's gonna be called And I've Never Heard from Bono Again. 786 00:38:56,834 --> 00:39:00,212 Because it's kinda like where you're… Like, this is… this is it. 787 00:39:00,296 --> 00:39:01,797 Like, you have made it. 788 00:39:01,881 --> 00:39:03,966 You are at Carnegie Hall, performing with Bono, 789 00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:06,385 and I decided to get wasted. 790 00:39:06,469 --> 00:39:08,471 [classical guitar music playing] 791 00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:15,353 Sitting here talking with you, I hear, um… different voices 792 00:39:15,436 --> 00:39:19,148 that remind me of different women who I know who sing, 793 00:39:19,231 --> 00:39:21,275 and… and… and I wondered… wondering, 794 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:24,195 when you were a child and you found a voice 795 00:39:24,278 --> 00:39:27,365 who were you singing in your head then? 796 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:29,408 -So… -It probably wasn't you necessarily. 797 00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,118 You were emulating someone? 798 00:39:31,202 --> 00:39:34,330 -I guess we all… like… I guess all of us… -That's how it starts, yes. 799 00:39:34,413 --> 00:39:37,124 We're like cocktails of all the things that have inspired us. 800 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:40,294 -Um… Stevie Nicks a lot. -Yep. 801 00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:42,838 And Tina a lot. 802 00:39:42,922 --> 00:39:47,051 Um… Dolly, obviously. Um… As I was getting older… 803 00:39:47,134 --> 00:39:50,262 I don't sound like Céline Dion. I wish I did. 804 00:39:50,346 --> 00:39:53,015 -But I did listen to a lotta Céline Dion. -What about Brittany Howard? 805 00:39:53,099 --> 00:39:54,308 Love Brittany Howard. 806 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:57,728 Working with Shawn Everett right now, who did the Alabama Shakes album. 807 00:39:57,812 --> 00:40:00,564 Brittany Howard's one of my favorite singer-songwriters. 808 00:40:00,648 --> 00:40:02,191 -Janis Joplin? -Of course. 809 00:40:02,274 --> 00:40:04,527 I cover Janis Joplin when I… 810 00:40:04,610 --> 00:40:07,154 used to perform for hundreds of thousands of people. 811 00:40:07,238 --> 00:40:08,614 It's fun when you see the fans 812 00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:10,574 'cause some of them are coming there to hear the… 813 00:40:10,658 --> 00:40:12,535 they're coming to see different versions of me. 814 00:40:12,618 --> 00:40:15,955 Some of them are coming to see, you know, the person that they grew up with. 815 00:40:16,038 --> 00:40:17,665 Some wanna hear the "Party in the USA." 816 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:19,625 Some of them wanna hear the new unreleased stuff. 817 00:40:19,708 --> 00:40:21,544 Some of them like where I'm at, 818 00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:25,005 and some of 'em really get into the covers because my fans really rediscover music. 819 00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:27,216 Here's a little glimpse of the Letterman household. 820 00:40:27,299 --> 00:40:30,344 I'm down in my room with the lights dim, 821 00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:34,682 and I'm… I come upon you, um… doing a cover. 822 00:40:34,765 --> 00:40:38,436 -Uh-huh. -And I scream, "Holy shit!" 823 00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:42,231 And my wife Regina comes running in. She doesn't really run in. 824 00:40:42,314 --> 00:40:43,482 -Uh-huh. -Uh… 825 00:40:43,566 --> 00:40:46,902 And she says, "What's going on? I say, "She's covering Pink Floyd!" 826 00:40:46,986 --> 00:40:49,071 And I said, "Nobody…" Excuse me. 827 00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:51,240 -[chuckles] -"Nobody covers Pink Floyd." 828 00:40:51,323 --> 00:40:54,243 I did cover that when I was in Vegas for like… 829 00:40:54,326 --> 00:40:56,954 It's kind of the last thing I should've done probably 830 00:40:57,037 --> 00:40:59,373 at, like, a Vegas iHeartRadio event. 831 00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:00,458 No! Why? 832 00:41:00,541 --> 00:41:03,335 Because… I can't remember who was in front of me, 833 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:05,254 but it was probably, you know, like, 834 00:41:05,337 --> 00:41:08,048 "And now, after Justin Timberlake, very exciting, 835 00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:11,385 Miley's gonna come sing songs that none of you guys give a shit about." 836 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:15,139 -But please! What does that say about me? -You know what? I did it for you. 837 00:41:15,222 --> 00:41:16,056 God bless you. 838 00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:18,392 Someone at home in the downstairs basement's watching this. 839 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:21,729 Occasionally, you'll hear Pink Floyd, but you never hear… 840 00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:24,648 And I thought, "Oh my God, she was part of Pink Floyd." 841 00:41:24,732 --> 00:41:27,109 Listen, I did "Boy Named Sue" 842 00:41:27,193 --> 00:41:30,488 when I was on my South American tour for Bangerz, 843 00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:34,492 and… it went as you could imagine. 844 00:41:34,575 --> 00:41:36,827 -Yeah. -It wasn't a real hit. 845 00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:40,539 It was, like, in the era of which I'm riding on a giant hot dog 846 00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:42,082 and sliding down my own tongue, 847 00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:45,211 and then I take a break to sing "Boy Named Sue"? 848 00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:46,253 -Wow. -Um… 849 00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:48,130 In a place where there is a language barrier, 850 00:41:48,214 --> 00:41:51,091 so the joke wasn't completely landing either. 851 00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:53,052 I thought this was, uh… 852 00:41:53,135 --> 00:41:54,678 I do believe this is admirable 853 00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:57,431 because, as much as one goes to see an artist 854 00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,517 perform the music of that artist, 855 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,603 what a delight to have this or that sprinkled in there. 856 00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:04,813 I was pleasantly stunned. 857 00:42:05,314 --> 00:42:06,148 [cheering] 858 00:42:06,232 --> 00:42:11,111 You are one of very few, if not the only straight man 859 00:42:11,195 --> 00:42:12,863 to ever come to one of these events. 860 00:42:12,947 --> 00:42:14,365 It's invite only, 861 00:42:14,448 --> 00:42:17,868 and it's kind of like you gotta be gay to get an invite. 862 00:42:17,952 --> 00:42:19,537 [laughter] 863 00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:23,707 And another one of a David who I really, really like, David Byrne, 864 00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:26,210 he asked me to be a part of Stop Making Sense. 865 00:42:26,293 --> 00:42:30,339 They're rereleasing this album, and they're having people cover the songs. 866 00:42:30,422 --> 00:42:32,341 But, again, I like to do things my way. 867 00:42:32,424 --> 00:42:35,844 So not only did I cover it, but I also rewrote it. 868 00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:37,805 And… No, I did. 869 00:42:37,888 --> 00:42:40,182 And my interpretation was like 870 00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:44,979 David Byrne does Johnny Cash doing Kylie Minogue. 871 00:42:45,062 --> 00:42:47,690 -[laughter] -So that's this version. 872 00:42:48,274 --> 00:42:51,860 -And we're gonna play it for you. -[cheering and applause] 873 00:42:51,944 --> 00:42:53,946 [playing country music] 874 00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:04,707 ♪ I can't seem to face up to the facts ♪ 875 00:43:05,291 --> 00:43:08,794 ♪ I'm tense and nervous And I can't relax ♪ 876 00:43:08,877 --> 00:43:10,713 ♪ I can't sleep ♪ 877 00:43:11,213 --> 00:43:15,843 ♪ 'Cause my bed's on fire ♪ 878 00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:20,222 ♪ Don't touch me, baby ♪ 879 00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:24,393 ♪ I told you I'm a real live wire ♪ 880 00:43:24,476 --> 00:43:26,478 [cheering] 881 00:43:27,730 --> 00:43:30,816 ♪ No, I can't seem To face up to the facts ♪ 882 00:43:30,899 --> 00:43:31,859 ♪ No, no, no ♪ 883 00:43:31,942 --> 00:43:35,571 ♪ I'm tense and nervous And I can't relax ♪ 884 00:43:35,654 --> 00:43:37,906 ♪ I can't sleep ♪ 885 00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:43,829 ♪ 'Cause my bed's on fire ♪ 886 00:43:43,912 --> 00:43:46,832 ♪ No, don't touch me, babe ♪ 887 00:43:46,915 --> 00:43:51,587 ♪ Yeah, I told you I'm a real live wire… ♪ 888 00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,882 If you know the song, this is the regular part. 889 00:43:55,382 --> 00:43:59,053 ♪ Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? ♪ 890 00:43:59,136 --> 00:44:02,473 ♪ Fa-fa-fa-fa fa-fa-fa-fa ♪ 891 00:44:02,556 --> 00:44:05,893 ♪ Better run, run, run, run ♪ 892 00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:08,687 ♪ Run, run, run away… ♪ 893 00:44:08,771 --> 00:44:09,855 My new part. 894 00:44:09,938 --> 00:44:12,316 ♪ Oh oh-oh-oh-oh ♪ 895 00:44:12,399 --> 00:44:14,902 ♪ I love you, Psycho Killer ♪ 896 00:44:14,985 --> 00:44:16,987 ♪ I'mma love you forever ♪ 897 00:44:17,071 --> 00:44:19,323 ♪ You know I'll never run away ♪ 898 00:44:19,990 --> 00:44:21,617 ♪ I'll never run away ♪ 899 00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:24,495 ♪ I love you, Psycho Killer ♪ 900 00:44:24,578 --> 00:44:26,455 ♪ I'mma love you forever ♪ 901 00:44:26,538 --> 00:44:29,208 ♪ You know I'll never run away ♪ 902 00:44:29,291 --> 00:44:31,627 Who wants to hear Tennessee French? 903 00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:38,550 ♪ Ce que j'ai fait, ce soir ♪ 904 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:45,391 ♪ Ce que elle a dit, ce soir-là ♪ 905 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:50,145 ♪ Ce soir-là-ah-ah ♪ 906 00:44:50,229 --> 00:44:51,855 ♪ Ah-ah ♪ 907 00:44:51,939 --> 00:44:55,859 ♪ Réalisant mon espoir ♪ 908 00:44:56,443 --> 00:44:59,947 ♪ Je me lance vers la gloire ♪ 909 00:45:01,073 --> 00:45:03,784 ♪ Ce que j'ai fait ♪ 910 00:45:04,743 --> 00:45:09,790 ♪ Ce soir ♪ 911 00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:13,335 ♪ Ah-ah-ah ♪ 912 00:45:13,419 --> 00:45:17,923 ♪ Yeah ♪ 913 00:45:18,006 --> 00:45:21,427 ♪ Yeah ♪ 914 00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:27,015 ♪ Oh yeah-yeah ♪ 915 00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:30,144 ♪ Yeah ♪ 916 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:33,397 ♪ Whoa-oh-oh oh-oh♪ 917 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,858 ♪ I love you, Psycho Killer ♪ 918 00:45:35,941 --> 00:45:38,110 ♪ I'mma love you forever ♪ 919 00:45:38,193 --> 00:45:40,571 ♪ You know I'll never run away ♪ 920 00:45:40,654 --> 00:45:42,489 ♪ I could never run away ♪ 921 00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:45,117 ♪ I love you, Psycho Killer ♪ 922 00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,327 ♪ I'mma love you forever ♪ 923 00:45:47,411 --> 00:45:49,830 ♪ You know I'll never run away ♪ 924 00:45:49,913 --> 00:45:52,124 ♪ I could never run away ♪ 925 00:45:54,626 --> 00:45:57,421 ♪ I could never run away ♪ 926 00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,174 [cheering and applause] 927 00:46:03,260 --> 00:46:04,344 Thank you very much. 928 00:46:09,892 --> 00:46:12,227 -Are you gonna do the David Byrne parts? -[laughter] 929 00:46:14,396 --> 00:46:17,524 Um, you know, um… I don't know who you people are. 930 00:46:17,608 --> 00:46:18,776 [laughter] 931 00:46:18,859 --> 00:46:20,152 I don't know how you got in here, 932 00:46:20,235 --> 00:46:24,573 but you understand how lucky you are to witness this, right? 933 00:46:24,656 --> 00:46:26,366 [audience members] Yeah! [cheering] 934 00:46:26,450 --> 00:46:29,369 What a beautiful instrument. What a lovely woman. 935 00:46:29,453 --> 00:46:31,705 And also, nice meeting Tish. 936 00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:33,457 Uh… This was so good, 937 00:46:33,540 --> 00:46:36,835 as I'm sitting there, I'm thinking I might be gay. 938 00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:38,921 -[laughter] -Yes! 939 00:46:39,004 --> 00:46:41,840 [whooping and applause] 940 00:46:41,924 --> 00:46:45,385 So we'll… we'll do some tests, and I'll get back to ya. 941 00:46:46,136 --> 00:46:47,346 -God bless you. -Thank you. 942 00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:48,472 Thank you. 943 00:46:49,264 --> 00:46:50,557 Miley Cyrus. 944 00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,643 [cheering and applause] 945 00:46:56,814 --> 00:46:59,525 By the tapering of your pants, I had already thought that. 946 00:46:59,608 --> 00:47:02,653 I'm glad that you… have caught on. 947 00:47:03,821 --> 00:47:07,241 We're two hours from Palm Springs. You can start all over right now. 948 00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,326 [laughter] 949 00:47:09,409 --> 00:47:10,661 [cheering and applause] 950 00:47:10,744 --> 00:47:12,746 [theme music playing] 951 00:47:45,821 --> 00:47:47,823 [music fades]