When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.