Quotes About Family

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it's an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn't recommend anybody to go into this business.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

I think that a lot of the stories I would see was kids who are first-generation immigrants, watching them try to rip themselves from their family and their faith and kind of erase. I hadn't really seen anything where someone's trying to reconcile the two.

I love my mother and hope to one day reconcile with her.

Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family - you can't concentrate on your work.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that.

'You Should Be Here' came from a real place. I lost my father... it was right when I was getting my record deal. There's just been so many moments that he hasn't been here for. It's kind of the reason I wrote the song.

What's interesting is often people think life changes when you have a record deal and you do all kinds of stuff. Obviously your life changes, but nothing changes your life like getting married and having kids.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

I'm really proud to say that in the recorded history of our family, we've never had a divorce or any kind of homosexual relationship.

Right after my mother died, my dad and I went into the studio and he recorded a song called 'I Found You Among the Roses.'

My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.

I think the first music I ever heard was Abba. I took my mother's cassette recorder and went into the bushes to listen to Abba when I was four or five-years-old.

I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

I'm happy to be recording and singing live. I have a great family, and a great bunch of people always come and see me sing. What more does a man need?