The Flaming Lips mainman Wayne Coyne has waxed lyrical about Miley Cyrus.

The indie rockers and the 'Bangerz' star have enjoyed a fruitful relationship over the last few years, with the acts performing live cameos together.

Cyrus recently contributed to the Flaming Lips' Beatles covers album 'With a Little Help From My Fwends' and Coyne told Radio.com that she was a pleasure to work with.

He said: "Last year, if there was a 'person of the year', it was Miley Cyrus. I had a sense that she just didn’t give a f**k. She had so many people telling her how stupid she was, or how embarrassing she was. But also, she had a lot of people telling her how absolutely great she was. And I could tell that she was like, 'I don’t give a f**k what people think'. And to me, that’s when the power of music and art really starts to accelerate.

"Because if you’re really trying to sell records, that’s a difficult area to play in. If you’re trying to be popular, that’s difficult. If you’re trying to be something other than yourself, you’re probably gonna lose. But I could tell with her, she’s like, 'I’m just doing whatever the f**k I want and I don’t give a f**k what people think'. And I think she knew that we were fans, and last year on my birthday she tweeted a happy birthday wish to me and said that I was one of her favourite artists, and I tweeted her right back."

Coyne continued: "We just got each other’s numbers after that and became friends. I think if you were around her, after five minutes you’d go, 'Oh, I get it'. I don’t think I would have any fun being in the studio with someone that was surrounded by managers and handlers. She’s not like that at all. I think that most of the people that are going to want to be around me aren’t like that.

"Even when we did stuff with Kesha, three years ago now, she wasn’t like that. Everybody’s always like, 'Working with Kesha: what was that like?' We just went to her house, and it was just her and us. There wasn’t anybody else there, there wasn’t anybody telling us what to do. It was our songs, and we recorded until about four in the morning, and then we went home. But Miley, in a sense, is like me in that she just does what she wants to do.

"She’s the boss, she’s not calling anybody saying, 'Can I do a song with Flaming Lips?' If she wants to do it, she just does it. And anybody that works for her says, 'Great, let’s go do it!' And I think her camp does not look at it as being absurd. They know her, she’s a freak. I can tell you for sure, she’s a bigger freak than I am. You’d love her. I mean, if you were around her, the perception that people have, that would completely disappear, you’d just love her. She’s absolutely fun and full of love."

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Watch the Flaming Lips and Cyrus collaborate below: