Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.
I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.
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.
Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.
I don't have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food.
Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
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 have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.
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.
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.
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 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.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
