I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
In Positano, I like the San Pietro Hotel, which is run by a friend whose family has owned the hotel for more than 100 years.
Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.
When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family.
Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.
For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.
Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.
For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth.
