I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

Everyday you wake up on the right side of the dirt is a good one.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

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.

If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back -- if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you...I is what I is, and I'm not changing.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.