Pat Benatar Quotes

Between work and your kids and your spouse or whatever situation you have in your life. I think balancing all of that seems to be a huge situation.

I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

I think it's harder when you get older and you start having children because you've got to get up in the morning and you've got actual responsibilities instead of just writing music for yourself.

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

I'm doing less than I used to because I'm a family man now, and I have two kids.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile office. This way, I had welcome distractions. I had to load the washing machine, I had to go out and buy lemons.

It's hard to balance work and family.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

I think all parents have a double life.

Jason's got a family, so it's difficult for us to get together.

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.

When I go home, I got a kid; I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about the character or anything that may or may not happen.