Family
In 1972, Williams married Sachiko Kanenobu, Japanese female singer-songwriter; they raised two children.
In the 1980s, he was married to Donna Nassar who provided many illustrations for Crawdaddy!'s second incarnation.
In 1992 Williams began a relationship with anti-folk co-founder and singer Cindy Lee Berryhill, now his wife. In 2009, Williams lived in Encinitas, California with Berryhill and their son, Alexander, part of the year but eventually had to enter a nursing home due to dementia. He is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the early onset of which is attributed to a brain injury Williams sustained in a 1995 bicycle accident. The medical bills have been enormous, and the family is asking for donations toward his continued medical care. On December 14, 2009 Paul Williams was accepted for Medi-Cal (Medicaid) coverage.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another—generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)
“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”
—J.M. (John Millington)