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Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

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

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

When I was a baby, my mom was always bringing me onto set.

My mum died when I was 11.

My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

I was a mother's boy.

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.