Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

I have a fat head - I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.