“But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.”
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“My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.”
“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.”
“My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.”
“I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.”
“A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.”
“Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.”
“I didn't want to have braces when I was a kid and I'm pretty sure my dad didn't want to pay for them.”
“Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.”
“If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.”
“So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.”
“My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.”
“When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.”
“Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.”
“I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.”
“That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.”
“I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.”
“I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.”
“I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.”
“My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.”
“My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.”
“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.”
“I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's b--t all day today.”
“Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.”