If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets..

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things..

I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer. That's from a young kid. I had all these records fr….

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doe….

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!.

We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he h….

When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine..

Now, kids are bulls**t meters. We can smell bulls**t right away. When something's not real, you can't connect to it..

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is..

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you..

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its….

A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who w….

I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and rea….

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools an….

It's almost like learning to meditate to learn to hear what your kid is actually saying..

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid..

A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids..

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the sur….

When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration….

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till….

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence..