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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

My mom sees her sons as baby boys. Well, I stopped being her baby boy a long time ago.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.