For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

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

You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.