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My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and do not make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I have ever had in my life.

My parents are wonderful, and I am really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person. She goes completely on her feelings of things, on her intuition, and so she instilled that in my brothers and I.

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

I do not drink, and I do not smoke. It is a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch Saturday Night Live.

I want to be as healthy as I can because I am a mom now.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I do not know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world best mom, and so far I have done it.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, What does your dad do for a living? So I said He helps women get pregnant! They called my mom and they were like, What exactly does your husband do?'

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

I could do without cool publications calling me mom jazz. But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

My mom just did not put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.