I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

The beautiful thing having a vision for life is it adds energy, enthusiasm, winning spirit, patience, dedication and productive inner qualities in you.

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

I watched a few of Warren Beatty films when I was growing up...my Dad loved 'Heaven Can Wait.'

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.