Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

You can not make everybody happy.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.