I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

I don't care much about conforming.

Don't listen to anyone's advice. Listen to your baby ... There are so many books, doctors, and well-meaning friends and family. We like to say, 'You don't need a book. Your baby is a book. Just pick it up and read it.'

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason, but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.