I think because I was a mother, it helped me feel comfortable that really my primary goal there was to save my kids.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

I think because I was a mother, it helped me feel comfortable that really my primary goal there was to save my kids.