My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

The image is an image.

I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .

You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.