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Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

We all have our family issues from time to time.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

I think all family businesses are difficult and fraught with problems because you have that family relationship to get over. But my dad has been so supportive, we've managed to work around that.