I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Everybody sung in my family.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.