I believe in America. I'm one of those silly flag wavers.

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!

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

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.