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I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.