I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
