My family background was deeply Christian.

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.