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I grew up in a home environment where I was not getting esteem for anything I did.

I listen to the phone-ins on the way home and I know how the fans feel.

Power Does not have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

The day I finished Twilight, I came home and started bulking up. For New Moon, I am 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

My doctor asked me if I smoked, and I said only when I am working, golfing, or drinking. Then I realized the only time I do not smoke is when I am home. I did not even realize I do become a smoker.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.

I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.

I do not know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can not play there, you should be home with your mama.

I am not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I will say, It tastes like chicken. I mean, that is not what people think of when they think of wine, but that is what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

I am still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I do not take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

And now, I still really do not care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.

There is an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home is not some heroic thing. That Does not mean it is not confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.