Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.