Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

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.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

Dandyism is a species of genius.