I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.

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.

Bitterness is captivity.

It wasn’t her first kiss, but it was the first one that mattered.

The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!

I always want to write something better than the last book.