My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.
The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.
My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.
My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.
I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.
