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?

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.

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

I cant live without activity; I cant be sedentary.

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

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.