I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

When you serve lobster, you've taken a being's life away. Therefore if you create a recipe, you have to be very dedicated to elevate the lobster, to make it good and tasty of course, but at the end of the day it's a matter of paying homage.

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

The fish is the star of the plate.

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

I have more eating memories than cooking memories and many memories of being in the kitchen - I was always attracted to the kitchen - but nobody ever wanted me to touch anything.

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.