Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

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.

Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.