It's not normal, what I do. Just being on television isn't.

When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.