Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

As they say in Italy Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

My mother at least twice cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

I do not see my family life in any way shape or form as an opportunity for a photo.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or I don't know I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

I did come from a pretty independent-minded family.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.