I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.
We eat all organic at home, so if we're running around and the kids want a hot dog or pretzel, I'll get it for them.
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.
I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term.
I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.
Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.
The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.
I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
