Making pasta, cooking pasta and baking bread are two essential ideas to create a little bit of excitement, and you learn the basic, and then evolve it. Flavor the bread, flavor the pasta, go to a fish, go to a meat sauce and take it to another level.

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.

They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.

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

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

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

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.