As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.