I think that when you're in your twenties you think about your future, when you're in your thirties you're raising kids and you think about their fut….

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a….

I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' si….

I love comic books and always did as a kid..

I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If….

THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT….

My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect….

I don't think I would be a good politician. I kid about it when I get a standing ovation. Sometimes I'll say, "I may run for Governor," but it's stri….

I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I'll be glad a….

I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are whe….

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had hero….

It's hard having kids because it's boring... It's just being with them on the floor while they be children. They read Clifford the Big Red Dog to you….

I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we ….

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't af….

I had horrible acne when I was a kid. I felt like a complete and utter ne'er do well and someone who didn't fit in and wasn't handsome. So, I underst….

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better..

There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I'm not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to t….

I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same w….

I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting ….

I'm aware that most people who meet me for the first time think of me in a certain way because of who my father is. That just comes with the territor….

What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not so much what they're going to do, b….