I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Once you grow up and discover yourself as a human being you look at things for what they are.

You have to shout in the kitchen to deliver the orders, to drive the troops, to get the food out. When you have a table of eight courses and everyone's having something different, you have a 15-second window to get it all together so no one at the table waits.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.