I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

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.

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.