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.

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

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.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

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!

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

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