Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

A steak needs fat to taste great.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.

Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.

He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of".

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.