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Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

Kids need somewhere to go, so they're not bored on the street.

I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City.

I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.