Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.