My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring.
Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
To be a parent, you must be authoritarian. If the Zambians want to succeed, they must learn to work hard, and they should not expect to be treated with kid gloves.
I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.
I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.
The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.
And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown
If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.
I had kids at age 47, and very late in life, and I'd been doing it for 30 straight years, writing songs, making a record and touring and starting the process right over.
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.
As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.
When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.
It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that.
He'd say most kids were made of sugar and spice, but his Kylee was made of pancakes.
Kids should be cute, caring, cuddly, and above all, quiet.
