I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

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

It goes back to the early days in the kitchen where you would be tasting dishes all night long, so the last thing I want to do in the morning is eat. Chefs generally tend to be grazers.