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I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

The reason it was so bruising when someone said I was from a rich family is that, like many of us, I'm deeply invested - probably overly so - in the myth of my own self-creation. I like to believe that I got where I am, such as it is, by working hard and charting my own course.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.