My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.