It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
For my last meal, I’d want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad’s omelettes with three or four eggs.
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
My dad was a teacher. He has a Masters in music. He taught elementary school, and he played gigs his whole life, and we lived good.
The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn’t have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the ‘50s.
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I’m a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.
My dad didn’t believe that I was going to make it through school, and that was the only thing I was determined to do, because he said that I wasn’t going to do it.
My dad’s a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he’s full of charisma. If he’s telling a story about Noah’s ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.
The way my dad set things up was for me to oversee the business side and for my brother to oversee the basketball side. I know my dad felt that was a good system, and that’s the system we’re trying to make work.
It’s all too easy to say, ‘You didn’t have a dad, therefore, you married an older man.’ Listen, I didn’t marry my dad. My dad is much younger than my husband.
When I brought my medical school friends home, Dad used to tell us that we didn’t know anything about the world. He started giving me impromptu quizzes about history and current events. I quite liked that.
I come from an ordinary family – my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker – and we’ve always loved racing together.
When I got to 40, I was happy. Now I can wear what I like, listen to what I like, don’t have to try and be cool. I’m someone’s dad and it doesn’t matter any more. That’s an enormous freedom.
When I recorded my first line on a song in a studio, I was four. My dad makes music, so he was kind of messing around in his studio, and he had a line for me to say, and I recorded it, and that was at the beginning of one of his songs.
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
My mom’s family is Russian Jewish, and my dad’s Puerto Rico Catholic, so it’s kind of a weird mix.
Without my dad, mum and siblings I wouldn’t be here. Everything they did for me, I’m so thankful.
Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him – he didn’t try to be our best friend.
My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.
I’m a homebody. If I’m not working I’m with my family being a dad.
From my dad I learnt that it is very important to stay calm.
My dad used to DJ too, so we used to hear music all the time.
