I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.