At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.'
I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.
To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.
My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.
I am an avid hunter and marksman, and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives.
I don't think at that time I realized how important it was and how important it was for me to be here and carry on that legacy in our family of being a photographer.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.
Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.
