I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken.

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

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.

In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

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