dad

My dad didnt want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it. – Gavin DeGraw

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, hed say, Sure. Hed see one, Oh, good play – you know, very typical dad reaction. – Eric McCormack

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third times a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. – Rodney Atkins

Right now, it hasnt affected my music other than the fact that I dont have time to write any of it. Thats no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and Id have to quit. – Paul Westerberg

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think its just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir. – George Best

Ive always wanted to be a dad. I just cant wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe Ive become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect. – Josh Duhamel

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but Harry Potter, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, dont you? – Robbie Coltraine

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now shes a painter. – Sam Rockwell

Im an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then Ill give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesnt, like, step on my toes or anything. – Ashlee Simpson

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. Hed be a good film professor. – Sofia Coppola

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, Id always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship. – Greg Louganis

I didnt want to have braces when I was a kid and Im pretty sure my dad didnt want to pay for them. – Jessica Pare

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. Im a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. – Chris Robinson

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I wouldve said, Thats not how it works. But nothing can be more gratifying. Im a very hands-on dad. – Chris Robinson

When my dad died a lot of songs came, and theyre still coming. – Rosanne Cash

Because I was starting out in my 20s. I wanted to do it on my own. I didnt want to use my dad or have people say I was using him. – Rosanne Cash

Im afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now its tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. – Gordon Strachan

Thats what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, theyd have to get new candidates. – Meg White

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldnt sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad. – Ricky Skaggs

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and thats what my dad was into. – Slash