It's funny, THOUGH, SPEAKING of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, LIKE, five or six YEARS ago in the film 'Death SENTENCE,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

Having ROBBED children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the HOME, many young MEN make gangs their FAMILIES.

Boys WANT to grow up to be like their MALE role MODELS. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers SEARCH the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

There is too MUCH fathering GOING on just now and there is no DOUBT about it FATHERS are DEPRESSING.

This COUNTRY can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool LIMITED by SEX, RACE, money, powerful FATHERS and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

For a LOT of lads, they grow up going to matches with fathers or mates. Those Saturday or Sundays where you head over to the stadium probably with a scarf on - KNOWING every WORD, every CLAP and every pause to the supporters' CHANTS.

I don't BAD MOUTH them in FRONT of my children. They have their own relationships with their FATHERS, which is AMAZING.

The Founding FATHERS PROVIDED a way to reverse unpopular Supreme COURT DECISIONS: a constitutional amendment.

In Birmingham, Manchester or LIVERPOOL there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from BROKEN homes, completely DYSFUNCTIONAL, mums for the most part UNABLE to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

Some musicians I know are INCREDIBLE fathers. LIKE Keith Richards. A FANTASTIC dad.

I SEE HAPPINESS as a BY-PRODUCT. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few MISTAKES the Founding FATHERS made.

I think we as fathers have to SAY GOOD things about our children or else they will BEAT us.

There are lots of people out there who THINK they KNOW the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding FATHERS built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could MAKE up their minds for themselves.

No FATHERS or MOTHERS THINK their own CHILDREN UGLY.