I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.

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

Would I have fired me? Knowing me? No.

I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.