Billy Ray Discusses Miley: 'Wrecking Ball' Singer Is 'Still My Miley'

Billy Ray Cyrus defended his daughter, Miley, on the Piers Morgan show, E! News reported Thursday.

Billy Ray was the featured guest on the CNN show on Thursday night. The host did not waste any time addressing the controversy surrounding the 20-year-old singer. The Wrecking Ball star has been the subject of backlash since she twerked and gyrated against Robin Thicke at the MTV VMA Awards in August.

Morgan said that he would not be pleased if his daughter acted in a similar fashion. Billy Ray had a response.

"It gets even stranger when that little girl becomes a young lady," he said, and mentioned that "the shock factor is tremendously higher than it used to be."

Billy Ray evaded the question further and simply expressed his support for her. The Achy Breaky Heart crooner said that his daughter was evolving as an artist.

"I'm her daddy. I come for that school of as a singer-songwriter, as a musician, that it starts with a song. And it's that magic moment when a song finds the right artist, the right singer, and it becomes a synchronicity of that moment in time," he said.

Billy Ray said that Miley was simply enjoying her moment.  He said that the clothing she wore or didn't would not have changed that fact.

"She's just Miley. She's an artist, she's real. I think that's what's happened over the years, Miley has been reinventing her sound. She's evolving as an artist herself. I think that it's all of what everyone is calling controversy now. That's still my Miley," he said.