When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.