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"I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could"

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A pop star admitting she’d rather be unconscious is funny, disarming, and quietly revealing. “I love to sleep. I’d sleep all day if I could” reads like a throwaway confession, but it lands because it collides with the job description Miley Cyrus is expected to inhabit: high-voltage, always-on, endlessly available. In celebrity culture, especially for women who came up in the Disney-to-adult pipeline, there’s an unspoken mandate to perform energy as proof of health, gratitude, and legitimacy. Loving sleep is a small refusal of that script.

The line’s simplicity does the work. No metaphors, no self-help framing, no “hustle” spin. Just a blunt preference that borders on impossible in a life built around touring, promo cycles, late-night sets, and the social-media demand to keep existing in public even when you’re not onstage. “If I could” is the tell: it acknowledges the fantasy while pointing to the constraint. Sleep becomes less about laziness and more about scarcity.

Subtext-wise, it’s also a soft way to talk about overwhelm without turning it into a confessional spectacle. Cyrus has spent years being read, diagnosed, and moralized by strangers; choosing a mundane desire sidesteps that gaze. It’s relatable without being calculatedly “relatable,” and that tension is the cultural moment: a generation increasingly fluent in burnout, mental health talk, and the quiet politics of rest.

In a landscape that rewards constant output, preferring sleep is a joke with teeth. It’s a reminder that the most radical thing a star can sometimes want is to disappear for a while.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cyrus, Miley. (2026, January 15). I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-sleep-id-sleep-all-day-if-i-could-155818/

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Cyrus, Miley. "I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-sleep-id-sleep-all-day-if-i-could-155818/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-to-sleep-id-sleep-all-day-if-i-could-155818/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus (born November 23, 1992) is a Musician from USA.

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