There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

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.