We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.

Don't play safe. Cook outside of your comfort zone, otherwise you're just going to do the same things.

Kids get very animated when it comes to food and it's nice to see how they react.

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

Kids are very visual, and they might not eat a food just because of its colour.

If you look at the new places opening, they're quite gutsy, earthy places.

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.

Crushed again!

I am still playing 'Words With Friends,' but on Virgin Atlantic.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.