If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

You know, it's not the world I would have wanted, for sure.

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.