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Ethan Miller—Getty Images Entertainer Miley Cyrus makes an appearance at Omnia Nightclub at Caesars Palace on March 22, 2015 in Las Vegas.

Indiana s new religious freedom law, which detractors say will allow religious business leaders to legally discriminate against the gay community, has drawn criticism from high-profile voices like Ashton Kutcher. Hillary Clinton and Apple CEO Tim Cook .

The latest celebrity to weigh in: Miley Cyrus, who shared her thoughts with TIME as part of a conversation about the future of music and youth culture for an upcoming issue of the magazine. Excerpts below:

I lived a life where I had to be something every day and had to be a character, and it wasn t necessarily who I wanted to be. And now I ve dedicated my life to being whoever it is that I want to be, and also constantly learning and evolving.

That s what s wrong with [supporters of the Indiana law] they re not choosing to live that way. And if you don t choose to live that way, you re not going to last in this generation because we are overtaking you. They are dinosaurs, and they are dying off. We are the new generation, and with that will come so much.

We are moving forward. As much as we get distracted by stupid laws that make us feel like we re regressing, we re not. We are moving forward because it s our turn as young people. It s a new rights movement. There s so much that young people want to do and change and see, and I think a lot of that can come through social media.

I put something on my Instagram today about how people are trying now to make the Indiana law look like something that it s not. They re trying to make it look like it s not discriminatory. It s confusing for my fans, so I m happy to [speak up about it]. They won t listen to Tim Cook, maybe. But they ll listen to me, you know? And people are starting to listen, I think.

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