We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.