If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer.
I make friends faster and easier than journalists.
Being on television, being recognizable, this is unnatural.
I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy.
In Italy, kids are taken to restaurants very early, they're welcome there, and they learn how to behave. You don't see a lot of screaming crying kids acting out in a restaurant in Italy. They don't put up with that.