Miley Cyrus - Thoughts on 2013 VMA Foam Finger Performance lyrics

"It was pretty popular at the game. Nobody had ever seen anything like that before, so it got some attention. And then when the team made its trip back to Ottumwa from Des Moines, I recall being on the bus with the team, holding the finger out the window." ... "I don't have evidence of newspaper clippings from around the country, but I do recall people from other states saying that they had seen the picture. You get enough of those photos around somewhere and you get people with creative minds, one thing leads to another and other people copy it and it goes on." ... "I wish I could feel the responsibility weighing down my pockets; I've not gained a dime from any royalties or anything like that. But it's just a matter of satisfaction. It was fun to do it and create it, and it's certainly rewarding to see what it's become and the variations of it." ... "For people that like that kind of entertainment, I'm sure that it met their needs. If I had a choice between Julie Andrews singing 'The Sound of Music' and Miley Cyrus doing 'Can't Stop,' I'd go the Julie Andrews route, but everyone has their choice and their decision. ... "I would say that it certainly misrepresented its intent to encourage team support. She took an honorable icon that is seen in sporting venues everywhere and degraded it. Fortunately, the foam finger has been around long enough that it will survive this incident. As for Miley Cyrus, let's hope she can outlive this event and also survive." ... "Neither application would necessarily be as I intended it to be; the real scope of it was to encourage fan support. To see it used as a prop for a dance, I don't see much added value there. But on the flip side, the prostate cancer concept, if it can be used in a manner that promotes better health or more awareness of problems that men go through, I don't necessarily see a problem in using it that way. I do hope that they designed the foam finger to look as though it was wearing a latex glove."