My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
I have an excellent internal compass.
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.
I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.
My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.