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

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

Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring.

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

Do I shout, belittle or swear? No. I have sufficient confidence within myself to control my environment just by my presence, just by working hard and leading from the front.

Chefs today choose to step onto that treadmill where they have to be seen. Every day they have to go to this party, they have to go to that party. But then you think "Who is doing the cooking?".

I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.