Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

From 16 to 26, no one really knows what they want to do for the rest of their life at that age. Latin's not f - ing one of them.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.