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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

You don't take food home from restaurants in Sweden.

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn't smoke in your own home. I don't care what people do in their home.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I'm not bothered by the food Nazis. Customers ought to be able to pick what they want to eat.

Poll after poll shows that consumers want the right to know what's in their food and how it's produced. Because our food choices have such a significant impact on our lives, this is a trend that should be welcomed, not frustrated.

I don't answer my phone in a restaurant.