Have you always been such an underachiever?
[Laughs]You sound like my husband!
Is it just in your nature?Yeah, I think I’ve always had a lot of energy.
On the way over here today I was thinking, Why do I still want so much more?
Because I’m so happy and I am so fulfilled.
But there is that part…it’s just a mechanism I was born with.
I just do want to accomplish more, and I don’t really know exactly what it is.
I think I did it!
I think I did that thing I was after!"
Of all your accomplishments, which do you feel proudest of?Having my babies.
I think that was the biggest.
For any woman and for me as well.
Which has been the most challenging of all of your endeavors?Probably the same thing!
I mean honestly, being entrusted with the lives of two people who are totally dependent on you?
But when you obtain babies, it’s a whole different take and a whole different spin on life.
And you have to have patience and boundless energy.
It’s a relentless thing, you know what I mean?
It’s not like, OK, today I want to sleep in.
You’re going to get up and you’re going to do it again!
it’s possible for you to always take a day off from work.
you’ve got the option to always take time from a relationship.
you could take time from anything except raising kids.
It’s a challenge for me, which is great, because I love a challenge.
What’s nonnegotiable and what’s not?Nonnegotiable is obviously, for me, the babies come first.
I want them to travel with me.
I want them to be with me.
I’ll only leave them with my sister or their father or my mom.
And that’s only for a few hours at a time.
And you know, that has to be in place.
Marc and I have to be a unit to make a unit for our children.
Our house has to be a good home for that.
That’s very very important to me.
Then there’s my work.
And I think that all comes second.
But even that has changed since I had my kids.
Before, being fulfilled as an individual would’ve been so much more about work.
It’s not about that as much anymore.
That paradigm has shifted for me.
That’s the most inspirational thing.
Anybody who has a child will understand that.
That I can’t stop.
But actually it made me more ambitious.
More inspired to do things.
If I’m doing music, I think about them hearing it later.
And I have to include Marc in that because he’s very inspiring as well.
And I want the same for him.
We push each other to the greatest heights, I hope.
And that’s what I want to do for my whole family.
That’s the inspiration of my life.
Has your relationship with Marc changed?
I forgot you were there!
“A little bit!
We’ve tried different things.
He was night shift and I was day.
And so that happened for a while and then we decided, we’re not going to do that.
We’re just going to help each other all day and all night.
And he’s like, “What’d you say?”
I said, “You heard me.
“[Laughs]He’s like, “OK, OK!”
He’s a great partner in that sense.
As human beings, we have a tendency to focus on the negative.
That one negative thing.
Everybody’s got their hands in the air and that one person can get to you.
But that’s how life is.
It’s not about that.
It’s about being grateful.
It’s about seeing all the blessings you have.
If you have your health and a great family and love in your life.
If you have those basic, basic things, you know, you might do anything.
We’ve just been adding onto that.
It’s just pluses.
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