I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

The CM stands for Cole Miner.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.