Miley Cyrus insists that she's happy being single following her split from actor Liam Hemsworth

She was said to have been left devastated after her break-up with fiance Liam Hemsworth this past August.
But Miley Cyrus has now insisted that she's perfectly happy being single.
In a new interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, the 20-year-old chats frankly about her split with The Hunger Games actor.

I'm happy: Miley Cyrus insists that she's happy being single following her split from actor Liam Hemsworth

Can't be tamed: Miley dished about her 'chaotic and crazy' life in her interview for the December issue of Cosmopolitan magazine where she dazzled in sequins

'I need to treat my music like a relationship – give it my time and all the attention it deserves – and that’s my main love right now,' she says.
'This is the best time of my life. I'm not going to look back on it and be like, 'I wish I hadn’t been dwelling over a breakup,' you know?'
In addition to opening up about Liam, Cyrus also confronted the critics who didn't care for her performance on MTV's Video Music Awards.

Last August, the diva attracted a slew of criticism for her risqué performance at this year's VMA awards alongside Robin Thicke.

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Fit to bust: Miley rocks in black Daisy Dukes and a sheer black blouse that leaves little to the imagination

But Miley is unrepentant about her 'haters,' while declaring herself a 'cool punk rock underdog.'
She tells the magazine's December issue: 'Everything is so chaotic and crazy right now...I'm literally what everyone is talking about.

'I don’t want to say that I’m on top right now – I feel like I’m kind of an underdog in a cool way. It’s almost punk rock to like me because it’s not the right thing to do. Like, society wants to shut me down.'

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Miley claims to be surprised at the furore she created at the awards show, which saw her perform lewd acts with a foam finger and twerk against the Blurred Lines singer.
'When people started complaining about the awards show, I was like, "Have you never seen the f***ing video?' she said.

'And what if I hadn’t done that performance? The VMAs would have been bad. They would have been missing something. The show was kind of making fun of how serious the pop industry is.'

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On the front cover of Cosmopolitan, Miley dazzles in a barely there gold mini-dress decorated with sequins and jewels.
In another inside shot, she shows off black Daisy Dukes paired with a sheer black blouse open to the waist to reveal her plunging gold bra and gold neck chains.
Miley also changes into teeny-tiny jeans shorts and a shaggy grey jacket, shrugged off her shoulder to show a silver metallic bra and her toned tummy.