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The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.