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

I didn't understand myself well enough be an ambassador to my world, to inspire people to want to cook, to inspire young people to want to come into my industry.

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.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

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.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.