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.

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

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

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

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

If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit... What are the limits?

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.