John says he understands why Miley leaves Twitter, claiming "artists have enough to deal with."
- Oct 16, 2009
AceShowbiz - Nearly two weeks after Miley Cyrus quit Twitter, John Mayer sounds off what he has in mind about her abrupt departure from the micro-blogging site. To MTV News the rock singer shares, "I think she's smart enough to realize there is some interference of the brain that she doesn't want to deal with. Artists have enough to deal with."
"She's a child, she's a fantastic artist - I think there's enough mental real estate being taken up by dealing with all of that stuff," John continues stating. "For whatever reason, I am old enough and smart enough to tell someone to go f*** themselves if they tell me to go f*** myself. I think if you're in Miley's situation, it might take a little too much time to play goalie for your own heart and mind. So I totally get it."
"Miley is somebody who's made a bunch of money doing something she loves. Most people do things they hate, for less money. If somebody can re-purpose something that somebody loves doing for a lot of money, in order to make a little bit of that money, they're gonna do it," John goes on explaining.
"So nobody hates Miley Cyrus; they're just picking up on her brand, re-purposing it, to try to make a little bit of Miley cash. It's damaging people's minds. Imagine Shannen Doherty with a Twitter account, back in the '90210' days. That would've just flat-out killed her."
Asked if he has ever thought of deleting his Twitter account, John jokingly tells MTV News, "I would rather tell the world to eat my a**hole before I would delete my Twitter account."
Miley Cyrus deleted her Twitter account in a sudden on Wednesday, October 7 and provided no single explanation for fans. She later on released a YouTube video in which she rapped her reason for quitting the popular social networking site, citing the need for privacy.
John Mayer, in fact, isn't the one and only person who defends her Twitter exit. Previously her brother Trace Cyrus claimed Miley's deed is perfectly logical. The older Cyrus was quoted by J-14 as saying, "I think she just wants to be more free in life. She said it to me the best that I could have heard anyone say it - she said she wants to live her life more than tweet about it, which completely makes sense to me. If she's spending all her time on the computer just talking about what she's doing, there's so much more life out there to live. When she said that to me, it really all made sense."
