I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability and tension into where you're supposed to be the safest really strikes a chord with me.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

I think the big family thing is that the loudest gets heard and everyone wants to be the loudest. I know my family can literally end up shouting. It's not aggressive - it's just volume.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

Athletics weren't really in the cards in my family - books, not body.

Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.