The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
My father was a huge influence on me.
From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.
My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
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