Quotes about Family

I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they still have the right approach to making music. In the U.S., people see it as a way to make money; they see it as a means to get out. It's a hustle, which is great - any way you can provide for your family that's legal is fantastic.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.