Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.
Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.
From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.
I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the terrain park in the afternoon. It's not one or the other.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.
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.
