Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it. You can't buy it, you can't rent it. You have to earn it. My formula has always been love yourself, move your body, watch your portions. And it sounds so easy, but it is not.

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.