"I've always had amazing women in my life help me with my kids. First it was my mom, and then a series of nannies and day care providers who were incredibly patient, kind, and loving. There is no blueprint - I think we all feel our way through it and just do the best we can, and it turns out that children are open to love from many different places and are pretty resilient, too."

“When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.”

“Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.”

Source : "Once-stricken saxman: Music 'gave me my life'". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2008.

“Better hope deferred than none.”

“I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.”

“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".”

“I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.”

Source : "Doug E. Fresh talks 'teach me how to dougie', Pharrell collabo" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. July 7, 2010.