And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.

There is an emptiness in my soul that only you can fill up!

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Have you ever seen the stereotype of the angry yoga teacher? There are some people that are at an 11 and yoga takes them down to a nine. That's me.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.