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

When I thought my professional career was over, it hadn't even started yet.

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.

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

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

The planning is everything. Deciding which dishes you're going to prepare can turn into the make-or-break decision five days later, when you actually serve the meal.

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.