I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

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.

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.