This is Jane Pauli. We've watched her grow up, seen her highs and lows.

And now Miley Cyrus is telling Sunday morning's Tracy Smith about all of it.

So let's talk something beautiful, the album first.

You've said that it's about healing.

Healing what or who?

Well, I think, you know, all of us, whether it's our past that we're aware of or something subconscious that

we're kind of unaware of.

You know, at some point, I think we've all collected some sort of emotional luggage.

And I think it's important to kind of inventory these experiences. And some of them, even the more traumatic ones, can be really valuable.

And in the something beautiful universe,

it was about highlighting how beautiful some of these more devastating times in our life

can actually kind of become this real diamond that's been pressurized and kind of the heat

and the literal fire, you know, that I experienced losing my house in Woolsey and now seeing

so much of that kind of rebuild physically and, you know, emotionally for me, artistically and creatively.

But again, it was it was really something that

kind of redefined what beauty is and beauty can kind of wind up feeling something that's external,

but it really feels like it's something that's authentic that radiates from the inside out.

You can't really fake it from the outside in.

Very true.

You touched on this with the fire, but what is something in your life that from the outside looks ugly,

but you've learned to appreciate as beautiful?

My first thought was myself in the morning, because I'm not always this, but what I like

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