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.

I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

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

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?".

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

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