I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.
We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
I've always wanted to do a family movie.
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.