What's interesting is people still aren't eating as much bread as they used to.

When the Atkins craze was in full bloom [about a year ago], people were asking us not to bring bread to the table noticeably more. Bread sales were down, and we were selling less pasta and a lot more steak.

Its such an individual thing-some people gained the weight back, but not as much as they had, and some people didn't. But I think people are still conscious about their carbohydrate intake.

Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk.

[With no MTV and fewer tour venues,] talk and variety shows were the only place for most people to see some acts, ... I felt like a missionary, bringing them to a primitive people.

People think when you get older, you have to slow down. Yeah, maybe that's true. But a lot people my age are dead, too.