Billy Ray Cyrus is busier than ever, but the country star couldn’t be happier. Not only is he working on his new album Back to Tennessee and filming Hannah Montana: The Movie, the daddy of teen super-star Miley Cyrus is also prepping to host NBC’s Nashville Star. We caught up with the elder Cyrus to find out more.
HW: Do you wish you'd had the opportunity like Nashville Star when you were trying to get into the business?
BRC: Oh my goodness, what I wouldn't give. I could look 15 years younger. I've been around. I had to go down a lot of unpaved highways. I had to learn through some mistakes that I would make. As you know, Thomas Edison said, "The most important ingredient for success is failure." Every time you fail, you eliminate one way that won't work and therefore being one way closer to the one that will."
HW: What's the appeal of being the host rather than a judge?
BRC: Well I - you know I'm not one to judge anybody…I've been to the fair and I've seen the bear... I've walked these streets and knocked on the doors of Nashville, you know, for well over 15 years before that first album, Some Gave All, you know. I will be a good mentor to these young people and anything that they want to ask me, in good faith I'll give them the best answer I can you know possibly think of that is the truth.
