I came up from a difficult background.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

The kids now, on "Junior," we educate the parents and it's quite a fascinating turnaround. You can just see the parents thinking, "S - , 10 years ago I was eating so bad, and now I'm seeing it through the eyes of my kids at 9, 10 years of age." There is an upside to that side of reality TV. It's not all negative.

I cook for a living; I'm not a scheduler.