Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

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

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

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

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.

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.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.