At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

A little less conversation, a little more ACTION.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!