The only thing I never have unless I'm pregnant is heartburn.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

It’s not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it’s a relationship.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.

My husband always smells good to me.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.

Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.