Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Good food and good eating are about risk.

The roots of creativity of cooking are hungry people trying to figure out how to take something that's not particularly fresh or tender and transform it into it something delicious that everyone will love.

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.

Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.