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Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

I tell my wife all my secrets.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.