I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I have it all figured out, and he'll say, 'But did you look at that side of it?' He shows me just how much more there is than what appears to be.

I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

I always say that environment always affects the food.