My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.