The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.

I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.