Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.