I've had a pretty crazy life. It's colorful ... reliving some of those closets that I had shut, locked and thrown away the key intentionally because it was painful to revisit a lot of those places - especially the loss of my buddy Robbie Tooley, the divorce of my parents, some of the things I went through as a kid, a lot of that stuff was locked up for a reason - it was painful. But at the same time, there was some therapy in revisiting some of those spots.

Billy Ray Cyrus

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He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back!

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chasing tired

Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a real deep thinker and stuff.

Billy Ray Cyrus

real stuff kids

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

Billy Ray Cyrus

battle-between-good-and-evil battle evil

My kids learned to color on this table. There's been a lot that's went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to 'Good Hearted Woman.' Sitting in that chair. This table's a bit like life. It's a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus

Billy Ray Cyrus

color believe kids

I'm pretty laidback as a dad anyway. I just trust her so much. She has a great head on her shoulders and she makes pretty good decisions most of the time. She even has enough common sense that if she makes a bad one she makes adjustments and knows that's what life is. It's a day-by-day, step-by-step journey through life, as she says in the movie.

Billy Ray Cyrus

common-sense dad journey

You make that climb, take it step by step and hopefully the view is great. I try to be a friend for Miley. I know that's not everyone's parenting style. But I try to be a friend, a partner as a singer, actor, songwriter and let her be a teenage girl and do her thing.

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teenage girl views

Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think it'd understand.

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rejection heart thinking

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

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without-you miserable break-up

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

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dream long moving

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.

Billy Ray Cyrus

destiny song thinking

Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.

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miley hannah-montana montana

I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.

Billy Ray Cyrus

passion different littles

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Billy Ray Cyrus

eye beautiful jesus

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

Billy Ray Cyrus

life-and-love vision giving

Miley is always on, she’s always funny, she’s always writing songs, she’s always making music. The parallel of the film is like Miley says, going back to her home, going back to her roots. Getting back to Tennessee was art imitating life imitating art.

Billy Ray Cyrus

home song art

If you're going to stand up for Jesus, your life will be a battle between light and darkness. And for everything that God will bring into your life that represents the light, the devil-he's such a sly fox-will come at you with two times more attributes of evil.

Billy Ray Cyrus

light two jesus

A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

Billy Ray Cyrus

opposites son thinking

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

Billy Ray Cyrus

accidents thinking

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

Billy Ray Cyrus

pentecostal preacher grandfather

The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.

Billy Ray Cyrus

inspiration writing song