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What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I didn't want children until my late thirties because my career was taking off, and I was having such a good time in New Order. But when you have children, you have to make decisions; I always wanted to stay at home with my kids.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.