When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.