Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother... →
Martin Amis
My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
Tori Amos
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on... →
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.
My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
Helen Andelin
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have... →
Lemon Andersen
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by... →
Clive Anderson