We monitor our birds, we test our birds even if they appear healthy. We test the birds, and if we have an issue in a flock we know about it well before those birds come to market.

The volume of phone inquiries (to the chamber) is up 46 percent to date this year.

It's still all about tourism and all about entertainment. But one of the challenges we have is getting more first-time visitors.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.