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I think there is nothing better than laughing in life, so that is nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It is cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that is fine.

I am a dad and that is pretty important.

My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

I did not really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, Where is the rest of it? It did not have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower are not fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

I am being a dad and a good husband.

I am worried because of my mother, she is going to see my performance and she is quite hard. She is going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they are going to see me like a woman, you know?

My dad did not want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, Hey, come see my play, he'd say, Sure. He'd see one, Oh, good play - you know, very typical dad reaction.

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time's a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I do not have time to write any of it. That is no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I do have to quit.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it is just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

I have always wanted to be a dad. I just can not wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I have become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.