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.

There's so much going on. I almost never have a moment.

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

You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.