It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and family shared with me over the years. And now, I'll be adding a little bit of a lighter touch to some of these wonderful dishes.

I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.