The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

I launched Chefs for Humanity a national nonprofit with my voice heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and when used in a positive way is a lot of fun.

I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

Would that the simple maxim that honesty is the best policy might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Religion has to stay in the heart not in politics. It is private.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Well I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love loss heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.