Both my parents are from academics.
Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn’t deal with it very well.
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents’ houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.
I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn’t even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.
Both my parents are first-generation success stories.
I think I’ve been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I’m now fit for the world I’m in. They’re very much behind my modelling and very supportive.
Both my parents worked when I was growing up.
Both my parents are very emotional. My mom is not expressive, my father is more, and he speaks out more.
Both my parents came into the United States from Mexico.
Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It’s a horribly disabling bug, a stroke.
I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.
We shot the video for ‘Broken’ where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood – my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.
I had parents who believed I could do anything – and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad’s life where they’d be like, ‘Your dad changed my life. He’s the reason I became a lawyer. He’s the reason I started writing. He’s the only reason I stayed in school.’
If you did something, and it wasn’t right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn’t get too much by them.
Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!
Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
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