In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

Stay with what's happening locally. It's really important.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!

I shoot from the hip.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.