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.

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

People who can give themselves every day. They're the people that I admire, they're real people.

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

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

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.

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