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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do."
Want

"I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much."
Mistake

"My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be."
Parents

"When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out."
Rest

"I had a blast doing the Warped Tour, but it's good to be home, for sure."
Home

"Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself."
New year

"Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off."
Music

"I feel like it's my job to carry the torch."
Job

"I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans."
Music

"I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet."
Nature
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