Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters

I only want to do better work. That's the focus of my life.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

You've got to be a little bored to be doing really good training.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

There is one story and one story only.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.