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I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'

I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.

As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.