I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.

I’m not sad about any of my life. It’s so unconventional. It doesn’t look anything like I thought it would.

I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.