I won't quit my day job. I like restaurants. I don't do a lot of television, either, even though people come to me with projects all the time. I have to spend time in the kitchen.

When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.

Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.

I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.

Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

When you have made as many mistakes as I have, then you can be as good as me.