Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi

Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles.

Cook more often. Don't study; just cook.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

No rules. Don't be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn't have to have rules. I don't like it that way.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home.

Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

The work I've done is the work I know, and the work I do is the work I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.