Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

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

I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing.

I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.