I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.
My dad's side of the family were calm folk from England, but the other side just loved to party. Somewhere between those two factions is me.
I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa.
Kane and Glenn Jacobs are two separate entities, you know.
I definitely take time to smell the flowers because I feel like my upbringing was quite a bit different than most guys on Tour.
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
I always fancied myself an outdoorsman, even though I'm a Jewish guy from the East Coast.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.
If you are in a hiring position, hire someone that is nothing like you. We keep looking for the commonalities, but find someone with commonalities that are nothing like you.
Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.
I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends.
