People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

I told my son, who's 11, "Look, I don't care if you curse - it's other people that care." So we tried that experiment, and he just cursed all the time. And I was like, "All right, now I care that you curse." You try to have this idealized view, and it's like, "I don't care." But it's just going to cause chaos.

My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.

I like to stay in a hotel where it's a dome of silence. I can sit in my room and do nothing.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.