My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin player - he's a bluegrass musician. It's always been a part of the family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
My mother - who's from Iowa - owns and runs her own day-care centre, while my father's a developer. And my musical influences, I think, came from my father's side of the family.
I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
My father's a firefighter. He was my whole life. And my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters.
My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.