She loves to cause controversy these days, and Miley Cyrus had an interesting interview with ET Canada earlier this week.

The “Party in the USA” singer began by explaining how she takes the negative energy she gets from critics and redirects it to something positive.

Cyrus noted, “Haters keep me mad motivated. People that are jealous, that kind of just hate on me, make me want to do better.”

“Once I left my show [Hannah Montana] I didn’t want anyone around that was going to tell me the way that I was going to do things. I wanted to go make mistakes, go be who I was going to be,” Miley continued.

When asked if she feels like a woman given her grown-up vibe, Cyrus joked, “I feel like a straight dude. You don’t even know what I’m rocking under this skirt. I feel like a straight man. I’m not even a dude, I’m a man.”