Her most recent interview with Parade magazine is surprisingly mature and interesting. She doesn't come off like an obnoxious teenager, and she doesn't come off like a pretentious starlet. She sounds intelligent and thoughtful and oddly relateable. To be honest, the older she gets, the more Miley impresses me as a bona fide talent. She's currently on the interview circuit for her upcoming flick, The Latest Song (which she filmed in Australia, which is where she met Liam). I'm very interested to see how she performs in her first "real" movie role. The trailer's above, and, I'll be honest -- I like it. Some highlights from her interview:

Finding unbiased love with Liam Helmsworth “[Liam has] become my best friend in the whole wide world. I love him. He really respects me for who I am because coming from Australia, he really didn’t know me as the celebrity I am here. I got to tell him about myself on my own terms and my own way. He had no preconceived notion of who I was supposed to be.” Her relationship with the ever-present paparazzi “The other day I felt a little bit in danger for the first time because there were too many photographers following me in too many cars. And I have to ask myself, ‘Why would any other 50-year-old man who was stalking a 17-year-old girl go to jail, but not these guys? I'm not as American as anyone else?’ I mean, they couldn't sit outside of a high school but they can sit outside my recording studio. It's creepy.” Knowing her faith "The one thing I’m really strong about regarding my religious beliefs is that you should know a little bit about everything before you define your own beliefs. I think all religions have a good practice in them. Liam and I have been reading about Buddhism lately and it’s all about hope and love. To me, faith is about having a clean slate and a clean start.”

And what does she think about ditching Hannah Montana? "What I am sure about is I'm going to rejoice and be happy to finally not have to be ... well, to not be somebody I'm not exactly," she says. ""As I've grown into it, I've grown out of it," she says. "When I was 12, I thought, 'I want to be famous all the time! I want everybody to recognize me! ... [But] I hate being thought of as a product. I am not a doll, and people want to treat me that way... I'm older now. I have an opinion. I have my own taste." I love it! Just don't develop a taste for cocaine, pretty please? I want you to be like the Lindsay Lohan who never gets hooked on drugs. TEAM MILEY! /> Her most recent interview with Parade magazine is surprisingly mature and interesting. She doesn't come off like an obnoxious teenager, and she doesn't come off like a pretentious starlet. She sounds intelligent and thoughtful and oddly relateable. To be honest, the older she gets, the more Miley impresses me as a bona fide talent. She's currently on the interview circuit for her upcoming flick, The Latest Song (which she filmed in Australia, which is where she met Liam). I'm very interested to see how she performs in her first "r...