In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

The most poisonous source in any kitchen is a chef's ego.

I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

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 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.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.