The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles.

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

Yes, doing a Kannada film is like a homecoming. This industry is like family to me. I have known people here since my childhood.

It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.

My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'

In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university. The performance arts aspect was never really an option because it was never in my family. Nobody was there to teach me anything about that. It wasn't until maybe my second year of university that I got inspired to dance.

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