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I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.

She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.