Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.

Without my women friends, I wouldn't know anything. They've been my teachers and my mothers. My mother was a wonderful person, but she didn't give me a lot of the stuff I needed to advance myself as an adult woman. I have a really strong group of girlfriends, and we share a lot with one another - the complications of raising children, marriages, personal and physical struggles.