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

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

The thing I have to be willing to do is work - I think I'm the one that is going to actually copyright the term "25/8." You ever hear of the term "25/8?" It's the cousin of "24/7." I have to go "25/8."

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

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.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.