Background Quotes

“I'm from a working-class background, and I've been able to make a good living, but I'm not a millionaire.”

“My mother and father are Argentinian, and I've visited Argentina several times.”

“I've never been someone who's been given a lot of money.”

“My father was a taxi driver. We were not a racing family.”

“My father was a coal miner, and I was raised in a coal-mining camp. Music was a way out.”

“I'm a farmer's son from California. I'm a composer and a producer. And I've been a musician my whole life.”

“I'm a farmer. I'm a rancher. I'm a small business owner. I'm a mom. I'm a grandma. I'm a hunter, and I'm a fisherman.”

“I'm a farmer at heart. I grew up on a farm.”

“My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a short time in India.”

“I'm a normal, working-class girl from a council estate. That's me.”

“I'm from a very simple background. I'm not a guy who's well-educated. But I'm a guy who has a lot of ideas.”

“Yes, my father was a civil servant. He was a career diplomat.”

“My real life was when I was just a working guy. I was a navy man for nine years. I was a factory worker.”

“I’m just a guy that grew up in a very tough neighborhood, a very poor neighborhood, and I looked at basketball as a way to get out.”

“My first language is Spanish. I was speaking it with my family before I started school.”

“I'm from a lower-middle-class family. I'm one of those generic suburban kids.”

“My father was a lead singer of The Main Ingredient. I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.”

“My father was a farmer, and we were very, very poor.”

“My mom is a nurse, and my dad is a truck driver. They're very down-to-earth.”

“I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I was just a short, skinny, loud-mouthed kid from Brooklyn.”