I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

I think people need more to do in their life if my hair pisses them off.

Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.

My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.

It's not sticky unless it touches itself.

Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.

Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

She was wearing the same clothes, but now she looked haggard and dirty. The delicate illusions that get us through life can only stand so much strain.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Your life can end in a flash before you even have time to know it’s over. There is no safe. There is no control.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.