Sophie B. Hawkins Quotes

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents.

For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never happened. But, I had grown into my father. I shouldn't have been surprised. Everyone always said I was the son he never had.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

All my life, I've wanted to write a book inspired by my relationship with my grandfather. Basically, my grandfather was a guy who everybody in the family regarded as disagreeable at best. But I loved him intensely. He was wonderful to me.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

I can see parts of my father in 'Kingdom' when I rage like that. I can see my father's frustrations in his life.

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.