It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown!

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

One of my missions was to teach.

I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Candy can coax kids. Cooked cabbage can't.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir, " she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.