David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along but it was harder on David because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

As a brother and sister our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

Growing up I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

Growing up I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

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'.

I was always the new kid in school I'm the kid from a broken family I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.

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.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

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.'

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

If I am to be known for anything I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians for knowing a little bit about their daily extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan Truman and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

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.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Courage is knowing what not to fear.