Miley Cyrus admitted that she still a mama's girl. During an interview with The New York Times, she feels that she has loss of safety after her mother no more travels with her.
She explained, "My mom no longer travels with me, because I’m 33 years old, and it was getting ridiculous. I never want to detach from my mom, because we’re so close. I’ll get tears in my eyes even talking about her. But if nature plays its course in the way that it does, I will be an individual without my mom at some point, and that used to completely paralyze me. So I guess the reason I said ‘I mother me’ is because I don’t have my mom with me the way that I used to. And now I just go, ‘What was it about her that made everything better?’ It was safety, because I knew any situation that I didn’t feel safe in, my mom would get me out of it or make it better. And so now I just imagine what soothed me about her, and then I do it for myself."
There is one time when her mother Tish went vacation and both Miley and her felt end of the world. She tells, "She went on a vacation to Italy without me for one week, and it felt like the end of the world to both of us".
"That’s what it’s about. I had never had my mom leave the country without me before. I’m too old to feel that way, but that’s how I felt. And my mom called me and said: ‘I don’t know why, but I want to cry today. I’m looking out my window, and there’s nothing out there for me, because you’re back home.’ The first lyric is, ‘Today you woke up and you told me that you wanted to cry,’ and that was my mom."