I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Oh, let me love with all my power all the way.Let me love like stars love the moon rest of my day.

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Today's Declaration: I focus on what I want, not on what i don't want.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.