There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.