I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
I knew that love was around. I truly believe my mother loved me. But feeling it all the time? I didn't.
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement.
Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all us kids had to be in the church choir.
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
Manuela: You are not a human being , , Lola. You are an epidemic.
Antonio Ricci: Your mother and her prayers can't help us.
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
