I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

I read books more than I go out.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.