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?".

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

A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance.

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

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

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.