To have 95% of the ingredients sourced, food and wine, within 100 miles radius, that's a dream come true for any chef.

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.

A problem is an opportunity to see your life through another window.

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

You win and lose as a team.

There were some ups and downs. But it is about how you overcome those ups and downs.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.