If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize.

The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.