The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love, You are life’s joy and present.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

I'm a redneck. And we can wear whatever because we just really don't care about those things. And when you're a redneck named Bubba, you really don't care.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.

For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.