I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Marisa starts to snoop. I might as well too. It's not often that I get to visit a water pellet company in a freaky refugee nation. -from Fireseed One

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

I've even said to other countries - I've said, "Listen, you're charging us a lot. We're going to charge you the same thing." They shrug their shoulders. They can't fight it.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

Feel about yourself what you would have others feel about themselves.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.