Quotes About Bonding

George and I met in 1975 at Bushey Meads secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire. I was in my second year - self-confident, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and excitable. He was the new boy and I was keen that I should get to look after him.

Beyonce, Solange, and my adopted daughter, Kelly Rowland, and I have always bonded over fashion.

We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

It's always good to have friends, but it's really about family. When you're younger, that isn't always clear. With friends it's about going out and kicking it. You learn that's not where it ends up.

A day with my kids is the best day.

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

I'm a huge dog person; I love to hug and kiss them.

Before shows, we rub elbows and growl. It started once when someone had a cold, and we didn't want to hug each other. So we started rubbing elbows. And we don't kiss. We just go, 'Grrrr!'

My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.

I would go through my mother's makeup kit, and I think she thought it was really cute. I was only three or four years old.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

I'm a complete foodie, but I'm a terrible cook. If a guy can get me in the kitchen and we actually have fun cooking, that's amazing.

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

A lot of my great memories are formed around food in the kitchen, sitting down with friends and family. It just makes everyone happy, the conversation flows.

I have some kind of knack for getting to know or becoming very close with people I've long admired.

I enjoy knocking around with the boys.

I used to fight every week. Me and my friends used to fight each other, bare knuckle, but then we would be friends that same day. That was our entertainment, though.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.