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

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.

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.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.

I'm very fond of food. I get hungry, and I like to eat almost all the time.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.