Miley Cyrus has insisted she's "one of the biggest feminists in the world" and says she's not worried about her on-stage antics overshadowing the music she makes.

While chatting to BBC Newsbeat, the 20-year-old star was asked for her opinion on the controversy surrounding the way she and other women are portrayed in video clips such as Wrecking Ball and Robin Thicke's summer smash Blurred Lines.

The singer responded: "I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women to not be scared of anything."

The former Disney darling continued: "For me it's not even that I'm a feminist, I'm for anybody, I'm for everybody, for anything. I don't care what you want to do in your life or who you want to be with, who you want to love, what you want to look like.

"You've got about 105 years on this earth and you should be happy every single one of those - there's no reason to not be. As long as you're breathing you should just find the best in everything."

Mi-Cy also revealed she isn't worried about her [uuid=6eb336fa-71b9-4168-8f78-a84dd6911084]eyebrow-raising on-stage antics[/uuid] at events such as the recent MTV EMA and VMAs becoming more talked about than her music.

Cyrus dished: "I don't really ever worry about it overshadowing anything because I think it's all about if you have good songs, I think you can wear anything or do anything, just be able to back it up by what you're doing [musically]"

Miley Cyrus released her new LP BANGERZ last month, which went to No. 1 in both the US and UK album charts.