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.

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.

You can't eat hope, ' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you, ' the colonel replied.

Practice in tranquility.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.