Does your parent often encourage you to be stripper? No? Well, maybe they should seek some advice from Billy Ray Cyrus. He had zero problem with Miley's poll dance at the Teen Choice Awards earlier this month. In fact, he was all for it.

"You know what? I just think that Miley loves entertaining people," he tells Access Hollywood at Thursday's Hellman's/Facebook Feeding American Event in NYC.

"She loves singing [and] songwriting," he adds of his 16-year-old daughter, who swirled around a pole attached to an ice cream truck during her performance of "Party in the USA" Aug. 10. In an Usmagazine.com poll, 85 percent of readers voted she was too young to dance so provocatively.

Billy Ray tells his daughter to ignore negative reactions.

"I always tell her to love what you're doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion," he says. (Access Hollywood)

Billy Ray's advice to Miley didn't stop there. He also imparted to her the wisdom of always getting the money upfront before a private dance, making sure the elastic on her thong is new so dollars can be crammed in there and smile wide, especially when the men pull out their wallets. He did this while sipping out of his "World's Greatest Dad" mug.