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Ariana Grande sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss her debut album Yours Truly and a variety of other fun topics. Highlights from the interview are below.

On her favorite song off the album “Honeymoon Avenue”: It strikes a chord with me. It’s been a part of my life for three years now and it’s come full circle. In the beginning, it sounded like an upbeat, Motown pop song and I was like “This song is really sad and it means a lot to me so we need to make it sound like the lyrical content.” Then we made it sound like what the song’s about. It’s even more special to me now. It gives me this weird, bittersweet feeling that almost makes me want to cry.”

On being compared to Mariah Carey: “It’s a blessing to get the comparison. When you look at “The Way” it’s obvious, but I’m not worried about it. It’s a massive compliment; she’s the greatest singer in the world, like literally, the Guinness Book of World Records. It’s an incredible compliment but it doesn’t worry me, because when you listen to my album as a whole, you get to know me.”

On Miley Cyrus’ MTV VMA performance: “She looked like she was having the time of her life. She’s happy. I’m happy. We’re both doing our different things. There’s nothing wrong with having fun. Nothing wrong. I think all the people who are saying mean things about it and who are judging, need to spend less time judging other people and more time worrying about how to have as much fun as she’s having in life right now.”

You can check out more from her interview here. Ariana’s album, which album debuted this past week at the number one on Billboard 200, is on sale now!