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.

If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.

Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

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

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

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