When you see me on TV, that's about as close to my real personality as you can get.

I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.

When you think something is cool already, it's okay to put in an honest day's work.

Vicke is so fat that she wakes up in sections.

I've always taken any sort of audible response as a compliment, and I always understand it is our consumers' right and privilege to say whatever people want at our events. So as long as there's no silence, I'll keep being excited. But that stuff in the arenas is one thing. The comments on the internet - the obnoxious, visceral comments - are baffling to me. I just don't know why that's the way it is.

I regret nothing and fear less.