Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.

Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.