My fuel for my fire is to be able to provide for my family.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

Sundays are a day for recuperation and family.

Most of the musical film work that I have done has been in this realm of what I think of as real family entertainment.

I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

I am not someone who enjoys being followed and harassed. I prefer to stay at home with my family than to go out.

In 1980, after 10 years at 'The Times,' I was at a crossroads in my personal life. I loved my family, but I was also so obsessive about my work that I found myself devoting more and more time to it. I wanted to be everywhere there was a good story, and that meant I had to choose between that and being with the family on important days.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

My dad is now an incredibly important ally of mine. I'm so impressed with him. He's a hero to me because he put love and his family first.

Bolton was a family club and I liked it.

I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?'

I don't travel with them, but they can't be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes... I used to play with my family - dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

When I booked 'Hairspray,' I really didn't have a support system other than my family and friends.

I am excited to be part of the dynamic Guggenheim family of companies.