Stay with what's happening locally. It's really important.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

I like what I do and keep thinking the best is yet to come.

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

I think increasingly consumers are judging the quality of their travel and hotel experiences by their ability to have access to basic technologies, including Wi-Fi.

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief.

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!!

You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.