My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.
— Adam F. Goldberg
My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.
In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries.
My mom was a shopaholic. She can literally never wear the same thing twice. That's fine with me.
I've been with my wife since I was 16.
All of my family members have had moments where they're upset with me because I'll cavalierly write a story just to be funny.
It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.
Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.
Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.
Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.
For me, every show that's about teachers - and there's been a number of them - they're like misfits who hate the kids and don't want to be there and hate their jobs. For me, having crazy parents, my teachers were the sane people who raised me, and they liked being there.
I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!
There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.
I was definitely more of a movie/cartoon guy than comics, but I really do like graphic novels - I don't have the time to sit down and read Stephen King like I used to, so I find picking up 'Saga' every now and then and just diving back into it is a great way to stay reading.
If I don't call my mom back, she'll go on Twitter and say, 'Adam hasn't called me. I'm worried about him,' and strangers will say, 'You're horrible. You go call your mom right now!' It's very complicated.
I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.
My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.
I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.
For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!
I'm terrible with titles.
My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'
Negative attention was better than no attention.
I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we're trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that's my dream project, besides 'The Goldbergs' - doing a Gobots movie.
If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don't think they even know what the word is.
'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job.
I never saw my parents kiss.
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.
Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.
On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.
Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I've been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.
