I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.