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When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.

As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.