I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.
Anthony BourdainI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainI'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.
Anthony BourdainI like telling stories, and I tell stories that interest me. It would be boring to have to go to nothing but the best restaurants. That would be a misery to me.
Anthony BourdainOn one hand we encourage and allow major pharmaceutical companies to openly hook vast sectors of our population on narcotics, and then we cut them off and throw them in jail, and moralize about it. It is clearly a huge, huge, and growing problem. It's devastating. We need to treat it as a health crisis, which it is, and stop moralizing.
Anthony Bourdain