I never cook at home. After 15 hours at work, I don't have much of a desire to cook at home. I do eat at home, but it's always something simple. Raw nuts. Almonds, hazelnuts, pine nuts--these are marvelous products. I am, however, the type that likes to go out to eat a lot. I never tire of it.

There's so much information that there is disinformation.

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.