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I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my dad just had no conception of what this was about, and sort of didn't even want to acknowledge it.

If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.