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My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

My dad was a very violent, frightening and dangerous guy. Next to him, I was this vague kind of kid who walked around, as I still do, gathering impressions.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.