My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.

My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'

I've heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him. I was just 17 when he died, and he didn't know that I was funny.

The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.

I'm a father. If my son jumped on a boy in a backyard, it would have been the worst mistake he made that day. And he'd have had to apologize to everybody.

My father belongs to Muzaffarnagar. Though I was born and brought up in Delhi, we, as a family, are known as U.P. wallahas.

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

My father was an Austrian, and he brought some Torahs over to this country, ancient Torahs that were slipped out of Germany.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I personally was involved in going over to Afghanistan to meet the troops. My father was a marine, so that was just amazing.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

My father started me singing in church.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.