I had a healthy appetite [being pregnant]. I got more healthy as time goes on, and they grew. I never let myself go.

I kind of feel like everybody knew anyway. I was on tour with a bubble gut!

Anybody who's had children knows this feeling of deep love. It's a selfless love, an unconditional love. And it makes you kind of examine everything that has happened.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

I feel like I haven't started yet. I'm looking forward to the ninth album, the thirtieth movie.

The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the creative people in the business realize that. It's not about that. Yeah, we all want to be successful, but we all just want to create and we want to tell the stories. We want to continue creating the opportunities to be able to continue doing what we love. So, at the end of the day, I feel like it's a win-win for everybody to be able to make these independent films.