You don't become a chef to become famous.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would bake, she would leave some dough for me. I would roll the dough into little sticks while she was cooking the apple tart of whatever. I was looking through the window of the oven and flipping the light, and then my bread would come out, and it was inedible, of course.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

In New York there used to be some very good clubs with amazing sound systems. Techno was part of the process.