billy ray cyrus for the hour. this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> billy ray, how are you?> i'm doing great. >> my first question, did you ever have this terrible nagging feeling if you suddenly keeled over from a heart attack tomorrow, the headlines would be, miley cyrus dad dies of an achey breaky heart? >> if that were the case, that's what it's going to read. as ironic as my life is at times, that will probably be the way i go. >> you have had an extraordinarily checkered life. you've had great highs. great lows. fair liberal dose of scandal and drama and everything else. how would you -- as you approach your 50th birthday. by the way, you have weathered much better than i have. as you approach it, how would you sum up your life? >> i would sum it up as for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. for me, there's never been anything in the middle. it's always been white hot or ice cold. it i goes back to my childhood, you know, when i was either going through what a kid at that time might be going through in eastern kentucky. my mom and dad got divorced wh