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

I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.

Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now, because I won't be able to help you.

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

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 listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

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.