I give people permission to be kids again.

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.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

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

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.

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!