My father, to me, is an important piece in American history.
The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.
The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.
Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.
Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.
I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.
