Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.

When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're dreaming of Singapore, you wake up in Hong Kong. Or you just lose track. It's one of the reasons I'm staying in hotels that I know I've stayed in before, and they don't look like other hotels.

I'm away 250 days a year. It's a tough situation.

My love of soft, runny cheese - it's impossible to resist.

If I were trapped in one city and had to eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of my life, I would not mind eating Japanese. I adore Japanese food. I love it.