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"My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up."
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
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"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm."
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"It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned."
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"My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands."
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"My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."
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"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."
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"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me."
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"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."
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"When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13."
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"More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad."
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"I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music."
Music
"When I'm on stage by myself, I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to worry about anything because I'm not responsible for anything except just opening my mouth and making sure music comes out."
Music
"Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults."
Children
"But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing."
Attention
"The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts."
People
"Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints."
Birthday
"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories."
Poetry
"I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful."
Time
"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time."
Home
"I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit."
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