I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy
I'm just a little kid from Akron.
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
My comedy is for adults, but you can have your kids listen to it. They won't get all the jokes because hopefully I'm more cerebral than a 10-year-old. . . but if you ask my wife, I'm not!
One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever. " - Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)
I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.
How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child?
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam. ' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see. . . not, I'm going to hear.
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.
I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.
As you get older, your songwriting starts to become less and less about you, and especially when you have kids and a family. You start to see the world through other people's eyes a lot more to the point where it's hard to go back and relate to that "me against the world" perspective that I think a lot of my earlier songs were about. It's not so much about "me against the world," it's, how do you make the best possible future for your kids to grow up in?
I would spend absolutely every last minute with my kids, telling them how much I love them and how much I would do for them.
I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.
Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.
I think it's a good way to sort of build your career and even when I was a young kid, I did the same thing, I looked at these guitar players, like. . . I was a big fan of Steve Vai, and Al DiMeola, and said "What do those guys do?" and I found out that they went to Berkelee College of music, so I was like "Well, I'm going to go to Berkelee College of Music", and you try to, like, learn from those things, so. . . It's important.
Now we're getting a whole generation of kids who have never had a football team in L. A. , so they don't miss it and don't ask for it. It becomes self-perpetuating. They don't know what they're missing.
