I get up every day, do the best that I can do, and go home and have a good time.

Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

All my life I dreamed of an apartment in Paris where I could cook, and now I have one, on the Left Bank.