Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that.... →
Martin Amis
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
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... →
If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other... →
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... →
I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.
I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.
I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there... →