[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

I don’t care what other people think about me. Most people are idiots, and they can think whatever they want.

He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.

I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy.

I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

You either get it or you don't. Become one of those who get it.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.