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My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there is a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

That is a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: Sit down and shut-up!

I love my mother Ali so much. I am a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It is not as though I had any say in the matter. I am just really fortunate. She is the most kind, loving, giving woman.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she is my biggest influence.

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She is like the eyebrow police!

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She is the sweetest woman in the world. I am looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I am looking for honesty and a big heart.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business was not the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about What can we do as a family.

The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It is the ultimate gift of life, and I am the one who was on the other end.

I was a big fan of The Smurfs growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a Smurfs fan.

My mom was a big Smurfs fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, Hurray, cartoons! and she would say, Smurfs! That is what you are watching.

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch Singin in the Rain and White Christmas - those kind of movies.

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she is your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it is also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way!