My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.