My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

For our immediate family and relatives Canada was a land of opportunity.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family like all parents do but it was a hobby - nothing more.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it too.

It has to be real and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present you know and mothers and fathers both are not present enough with children.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

I don't have anything against my mom but my family has no emotional connection to each other.