You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.