Miley Cyrus still has no “desire” to tour: “It’s really hard to keep mental wellness”

16 July, 2025

Miley Cyrus performs live in 2024

Miley Cyrus has shared that she isn’t planning on hitting the road anytime soon, as touring has a negative impact on her mental health.

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The singer made the comments during a new interview with Good Morning America, promoting her new album ‘Something Beautiful’.

The record marks her ninth studio LP, and arrived on May 30 as the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Endless Summer Vacation’. Before its release, it was previewed with singles ‘Prelude’, ‘End Of The World’, ‘More To Lose’, and the title track.

During the GMA interview, the singer made it clear that she has found herself increasingly turned off from the idea of touring. This, she explained, was due to the negative effect it takes on her “mental wellness”.

“I do have the physical ability and I have the opportunities to tour. I wish I had the desire, but I don’t,” she began.

“I also don’t think there’s actually an infrastructure that supports artists. The artists like Prince, that are not here today, that lived such a high-intensity lifestyle. You’re out on the road, and it’s hard to maintain sobriety when you’re on the road, which is a really important pillar of stability in my life. Not only losing their life but losing their minds.”

She continued: “None of this that I create would ever be possible without the way that I think about things. I do think it’s really hard to keep mental wellness. You have so many thousands of people screaming at you. You feel a lot of love, then you totally crash at the end of the show.

“You start thinking one person loving you is not enough. It needs to be 10,000. It needs to be 80,000.”

This isn’t the first time she has opened up about the impact touring has on her wellbeing either. Back in 2023 the singer revealed that she has struggled with the idea of being on the road for years, and has come to realise that it “isn’t healthy for me”.

“What people don’t really understand about touring [is that] the show is only 90 minutes, but that’s your life… If you’re performing at a certain level of intensity and excellence, there should be an equal amount of recovery and rest,” she said at the time.

“There’s a level of ego that has to play a part, that I feel gets overused when I’m on tour and once that switches on, it’s hard to turn it off. And I think when you’re training your ego every single night to be active, that’s the hardest switch for me to turn off.”

She continued: “It erases my humanity and my connection. And without my humanity and my connection, I can’t be a songwriter, which is my priority.”

That same year, it was confirmed in May that Cyrus would be taking a hiatus from touring as “singing for hundreds of thousands of people isn’t really the thing that I love”.

In other Miley Cyrus news, earlier this year the singer revealed that it was an interaction with Harrison Ford that led to her backing out of the idea of “performing in the forest” to promote her new album.

In NME’s four-star review of the record, Nick Levine wrote: “Featuring 13 tracks that unfurl over 53 minutes, ‘Something Beautiful’ is sprawling and apparently unperturbed by contemporary chart trends.

“It’s difficult to think of a Spotify playlist that might accommodate ‘Reborn’, which sounds a bit like an Andrew Lloyd Webber show tune written on mild hallucinogens. So while ‘Something Beautiful’ probably isn’t Cyrus’s most hit-packed album, it does feel like a fully realised artistic statement. This post-genre pop star has pulled off another pretty big swing.”