I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I'm actually not really a breakfast person.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

There's nothing new. I think that's the weird thing for me. Over the last couple of months, the keep-fit shows, and then at the end of it you get to lose weight and one of you is going to win a million dollars - that's not real. In many ways, even 10 years ago that wouldn't have worked.