I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.
I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
My father was stationed in Italy in the military. I had no one to feed me what was cool, so I was into Guns N' Roses and New Kids on the Block and MC Hammer and a lot of '80s hair bands. But I was never into Motley Crue, they never stuck with me.
I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.
As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do.
My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
