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

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

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.

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

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.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

He's the game all right.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.