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A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

I want to just be what kids believe in.

I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.