Miley Cyrus didn’t always want to be America’s reigning Twerk Queen. In fact, the “Wrecking Ball” singer says she seriously considered going to college to study photography.

In her recent highly-publicized interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Cyrus, 20, says she almost opted to enroll at New York University after finishing her television show Hannah Montana in order to study photography.

She told Rolling Stone, “Once I ended (Hannah Montana), I thought I might go to NYU or something and study photography. Or to Savannah – they’ve got a really good school in Savannah. I love photography. I have a Canon 5D. I want to co-direct something soon. When they’re saying, ‘Change this lens to this millimeter,’ I want to know what they’re talking about.”

Of course that didn’t happen. Cyrus ended up focusing on her music career instead, and the rest is history.

As for her passion for photography, the “Wrecking Ball” singer apparently still enjoys doing it as a hobby. She recently listed her old Nikon N80 35mm SLR camera on auction website eBay.com.