Brad Pitt successfully proved that he and his partner Angelina Jolie can be devoted and loving parents, as well as a perfect couple without being married.

Usually a lot more guarded when it comes to his personal life than Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt recently revealed in an interview with "Today's" Ann Curry that he and Jolie are planning to tie the knot only when the two will feel it's the right thing to do for their children.

"Angelina was asked recently by a reporter if you guys were ever going to get married and she said, 'You have to ask Brad,'" Curry reminded the actor.

"Well, she set me up didn’t she," Brad joked. "If we feel it’s important to our kids, we’ll do so."

From the looks of it, that time hasn't come yet as the actor's family seems to be doing perfectly fine.

"I'm really proud of this family," said Pitt, adding that the children's diverse background, Maddox, 7, is from Cambodia; Pax, 5, from, Vietnam; and Zahara, 3, from Ethiopia, doesn't change the fact that they are "brothers and sisters."

"They're playing, they're brothers and sisters man. And they're fighting, and they're laughing, and going into hysterics and staying up late, and they're messing with their parents, and they're driving me crazy. I truly feel rich. I just feel rich being around them," Pitt added, finding it difficult to explain further more how grateful he is for his amazing family.

It's easy to tell that Pitt's a proud father and can't help but talk about his kids, with several small exceptions though. He probably wishes he hadn't told Oprah how Zahara made him smell dog poop once and how Shiloh makes them call her John or Peter after Peter Pan.

In his efforts to duck more questions about his relationship with Angelina and their six children, the 44-year-old actor tried to focus the talk on the one-year anniversary of his sustainable housing project in New Orleans, "Make it Right," and his upcoming film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

"This time next year, you're going to see 100 homes here," Pitt, who spent much of his time in New Orleans recently helping to build new homes in the lower 9th ward, an area of the city that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, told Curry. "And not only that ... these homes, what you don't see is the way they work. It’s a sunny day. Those meters are running backward. They are off the grid. This is the road to affordable housing that you see right here."

On Monday night, Pitt and Jolie hit the red carpet hand in hand for the premiere of Pitt's whimsical new film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," which tells the story of a man who ages backwards.