The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
At Christmas, it's my siblings running around the house, we're cooking, talking, laughing, loud and just crazy. It's beautiful chaos.
I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show.
I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.
