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RD: How are things with Kelly?Travolta: Our marriage has been a really interesting, fulfilling experience. Most of our growing pains were resolving past relationships that didn't quite work out, realizing we weren't those people. We also had to deal with slightly different viewpoints on how children should be brought up. I'm not big on arbitrary things. Kelly might have more a fixed idea -- there should be a schedule. I feel like as long as they get eight hours' sleep, I don't care if they go to bed at 8 or 10. I don't care what they eat, as long as it's nutritious.
RD: Do they keep your late schedule?
Travolta: They do now -- half because they like it and half because that's when they get to see Dad. Kelly wasn't too fond of it. But she's come around.
RD: Are they having a much different experience than you did growing up?
Travolta: We were more important than my parents were, in their eyes. I feel that that's how Kelly and I are with our kids. They're the stars of our family. They're everything to us, and we are secondary to them. People may disagree with that viewpoint, but I don't know how to be any other way.
RD: What has brought you the greatest personal happiness in your life?
Travolta: My children. I know that sounds cliché, but there's a reason things are cliché. Because they're true.
RD: Do you have any regrets?
Travolta: I try to regret just enough to learn, so I don't do something again.
RD: What kinds of things do you do just for fun?
Travolta: Last weekend, I took the kids to Orlando. We stayed at the Ritz-Carlton and just had a blast. Or I'll give everybody a ride in the Ultralight -- it's a flying kite. But we also do the regular stuff -- go to a movie, have a Sunday barbecue, swim. At the end of the day, we go to Dairy Queen. It's funny because that's exactly what I used to do on Sundays during the summer with my mother and father. I said to my wife recently, "I look at this glorious house and the two jets, but it's no different from Englewood, New Jersey, and the backyard there. I'm having the same Oscar Mayer hot dog. And later we'll go to the Dairy Queen."
RD: Are you just as happy as you were back in Englewood?
Travolta: Oh, well, more. Because I have my own kids. I loved my life as a child. But that's the time that you're saying, "One day I'll have my own barbecue. And maybe I'll have a jet in the backyard too." In other words, every generation gets to improve on the dreams of the last generation.
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