The thing is, I can teach. I can teach bloody well. So few chefs have that level of generosity. I demand a lot, a f***ing hell of a lot, but I give a lot back.

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.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.