Cooking a dish is fine; cooking it under pressure is a completely different ballgame.

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.

In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess.

I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

When you're working on a record, I find it's better not to share details during that process. Because, until it's done, it can change.

Can love be controll'd by advice?

Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

We actually had a Kansa band softball team.

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.