Miley Cyrus Wishes She Didn't Have to Remove Her Braces for 'Hannah Montana'

Miley Cyrus gets candid about sexuality and gender roles in this thoughtful new interview.

The 22-year-old entertainer opened up to Time about her childhood and the competition among pop stars in Hollywood. Check it:

On having braces during Hannah Montana filming: “I had to take them off immediately because of the way I looked. If I was me now, I would have been like, ‘F-ck you. Normal 14-year-olds have braces. I’m going to have braces on the show, so kids who have braces in real life know that’s okay.’ But I didn’t have that in my mind then. I was coming from Nashville. My grandma’s a beauty queen. I didn’t know.”

On bring interested in girls when she was younger: “They all wanted to experiment. I was always the one.”

On not liking award shows: “Beyonce would never be down in the front row cheering on Katy Perry.”

For more on Miley, visit Time.com.