Sir Elton John has given his thoughts on Miley Cyrus - and he thinks she's on course to have a meltdown.

The US star has been in the headlines almost constantly recently, with her raunchy performance at the MTV VMAs a particular talking point.

Speaking to The Australian, Elton John admitted that he thinks Cyrus could well go off the rails, saying:

"I look at Miley Cyrus and I see a meltdown waiting to happen. And she's so young! But she's got two records in the top 20, so who is going to stop her?"

John added: "Maybe it's a British thing, but I can spot a car crash before it happens. I was in my dressing room in Las Vegas when they announced that Michael Jackson was playing 50 dates at the O2. I turned to my agent and said: 'He won't do a single one of those'. I could tell you he was going to die. He'd been doing drugs for so long, he'd been a mess for so long – and I've known Michael since he was 12 or 13 – that it was never going to happen. Everyone was saying it was going to be great and I was saying, 'Hello? Are you looking at the real thing here?'."