My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics they're the best songs ever.

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs like my whole life so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing.

When I was growing up my mother would say 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

If a dad does his job we don't need prisons we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

You know my mother's beautiful my dad was a really handsome man and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up mopping floors waiting tables.

I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom my dad and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done if you can count all your true friends on one hand you're a lucky man.'

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.