Quotes About Family

I did ballet, piano and all that - my brother did martial arts, my passion.

I started off as a kid singing with my dad. My dad was my best pal. But he had seven kids, and I was the only one who was kind of interested in what he was playing and singing at the piano. And he was not only my dad, but he was my best pal, and I was interested in doing whatever he wanted to.

My father was a musician and wanted me to study piano. I had no interest.

I basically am the only musician in my family. My aunt plays a little piano, but that's about it. My dad's mother painted and was actually good at it. I do not come from a long line of musicians, though.

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church.

Mum enrolled us for guitar and piano lessons, none of us had any talent oh, Kunal could play the piano well.

I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

My mom is the piano player in my dad's church - she's also the choir director - and she's just a musician through and through.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.

I think one of the things that I picked up from Nigeria is the constant pressure to be excellent. Parents drill in this responsibility towards family, but also a responsibility toward making sure your family name is heralded.

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo.

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to one another. Their relationship wasn't something to be constantly examined or picked apart.

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they may be, should continue to live at home until they were married.

My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.

I think we're such great parents together - I could not have picked a better partner to have kids with.