You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when the chef is not in the house? I feel cheated. I don't mind paying big money for food but if I go to Paul Bocuse's restaurant I want Paul in the house.

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.

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

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

I spent my days on the riverbanks, in the woods, in the fields, shooting, hunting and stalking. I unravelled everything within my life. Self discovery is most important to me.

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

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