Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good.

In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.

I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

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.

I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.

I believe - to the best of my recollection, anyway - that I soon made the classic error of moving from margaritas to actual shots of straight tequila. It does make it easier to meet new people.

I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.