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 whe

also, tonight, we're going to talk to billy ray cyrus. [ cheers ] we'll find out what he's got going also, billy ray's going to sing us a tune off his new album, "i'm american." it's going to be a great show tonight. i'm very excited about this. guys, today's friday and when i usually catch up with personal stuff. i check my in-box, return some e-mails, go see a "harry potter" movie and, of course, i send out some thank you notes. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. you guys don't mind? can i write out some thank you notes right now? is that okay with you guys? can i do it? [ cheers ] thank you so much. jimmy baseball, can i get some, like thank you note writing music? ♪ [ scattered cheers ] ♪ >> jimmy: took an ambien, i think. [ laughter ] sleeps during the night, so you can watch baseball all day. ♪ thank you, arnold schwarzenegger, for reportedly starring in an upcoming western called "the last stand." it'll probably be good for you to shoot some blanks for a while. [ laughter and applause ] [ as schwarzenegger ] "mildred, get over here now!" [ laughter ] something needs to be polis