We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life. . . The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought.

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.