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Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

You always hear people say that having kids changes everything, but you can't fully realize it until you have children yourself.

From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.