People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.

If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.