Racing's in my blood. My mum met my dad when she went to buy her first motorbike in his shop.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play me guys like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and Richie Havens - a lot of very emotional players.
Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.
Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
My mum and dad were always supportive of me. They always let me express myself.
You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
Other players do not rib me for being the coach's son. They rib me more for living at home with my mum and dad.
My mum and dad always knew that my dream was to be a footballer, but they also warned me that it doesn't always work out.
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
I drove my mum and dad mad.
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
Dad was a distant figure, autonomous, a cross between the Pope and Mussolini. He was very Italian, as were all of my uncles, although they were second generation.
