Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.