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

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.

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well, and I think it has an effect on me.

God doesn't love you more when you obey, you experience Him more!

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.