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.

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

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

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

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

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