If you do something that's going to get somebody a job, then they'll be able to pay for their kid's school, and then their kid is going to be a doctor, and then that doctor is going to probably help who knows how many other people, so it's very motivating. Much more fun than going to the beach.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me - San Francisco was a real refuge.

But there are parents out there who feel like they have been shut out from the process of how their children are educated, and that's never a good thing.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.