I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

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.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.

I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.