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I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.

I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.