Lukas Nelson

Kind of like an athlete at a certain point, you kind of have to look at like, oh, well, if I have a talent at this, I have connections in the industry.

I need to work like I was going to go to the Olympics on this because it's something that I can do that will make it so that I never have to rely on my family or my father for anything.

My whole goal in life is to discover who I am as an individual.

I think the – you know, Viktor Frankl has a book, a very famous book called Man's Search for Meaning.

And it's about Auschwitz and he was an Auschwitz survivor and he wrote about what was the common denominator in terms of people who persevered and survived in these camps.

And dignity and meaning were the common denominators generally.

And so finding what you mean in this life to yourself, it doesn't have to mean anything to anyone else.

And I think that's where, for me, I've lived my whole life trying to discover who I meant to myself so that at the moment of my death, I can look back and say, I did something that I enjoyed, that was meaningful, that gave me a sense of purpose.

Sure.

I think for me, I was never trying to be as great as him.

I was only trying to be close to him.

Because more than anything, my father's a great human being.

He's a well-rounded, kind, empathetic human.

And I'm...

I am truly grateful to be his and my mother's son because I have a good family.

I'm lucky.

That's awesome.

I have a good parent.

So what I was trying to do was just be closer to him.

As a little kid, the best thing my mom ever did –