Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Love is a way of living, and not something that you give.

You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your palette.

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom.

I loved performing every week, but all of the activities and amazing people we met when we were not filming stick out to me the most.