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I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

I have worked so hard since I was 15 years old, all because I wanted to be a mom.

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did.

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.