My Grandmother Was a Photographer for the National Geographic. She Wanted Me to Learn and Study and Maybe Not Have Some of the Toughness.

"I realized that she was a really tough person from Cleveland, who carried a lady Smith pistol in her purse and was flamboyant," he says of his grandmother. "She wanted me, she wanted me to learn and study and maybe not have some of the toughness that she had growing on" His father would stay home working in the bankrupt children's clothing business.