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

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

In an avant-garde cooking restaurant, it's the experience that's the difference.

I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

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