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As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

For me, the toughest thing for kids to deal with is when the parents are fighting. It's not violence on them - it's the feeling of violence in the family.

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.