Influential Family Quotes

When my oldest brother started acting. From there, I wanted to act myself. That's the long story short.

I have a sister, in particular, who's 13 years older than me. So growing up and watching her - watching her go to work, especially - was hugely influential to me. As the youngest, with a sibling that's a decade older, I had certain things that I would go to her about instead of my mother.

Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.

There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been very much in my blood.

I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

A lot of my material was based on my family.

My drummer, Gene Lake, is Oliver Lake's son. So I certainly have wide tastes, in not only what I listen to, but what I play as well.