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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

My parents didn't really know one another.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?