I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
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.
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
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.
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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.
Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.
My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.
I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.
