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My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

It was not like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I am always on the court with my dad.

You get to a certain age and you can not judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

The only day I remember of my parents marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it is like to internalize all that chaos.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

My role model is my dad.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who did not stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I did not have his blood.

If my Dad Does not like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She Does not even cuss.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I have always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That is my dad.

I am quite strict as a dad but I do not want to be censorious.

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There is an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It is very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It is very warm, it is very up, it is very down. I would celebrate that.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I do not think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

When I was really little I would sit in the back of my dad's car when he'd be playing old-school music. He'd turn down the music and turn around and I do be singing and know all of the words but I did not even know how to talk. From then on I have always wanted to be a singer.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

My dad is such a good man. You know how when you are a child you think your dad is invincible? Well, I still think that - he is so wise and everything I do I ask my dad's advice about first.