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Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

No matter what happens, I'm going to protect my kid.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.

Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I'll walk by the movie theater and say, 'Let's go see that,' and my kids will say, 'No, it's rated R. It's not appropriate for kids.' I'm like Uncle Dad. We have fun. I don't live with them, but I drive over four days a week.

I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I was not allowed to do a lot of things that, if I'd been, say, number three, I would have.

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.