When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

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.

If don’t want to be eliminated, you must be innovative. Update your knowledge and you won’t be outmoded.

Not everyone can see that everything has some beauty.

I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

The custom of my grandfather's day is still going strong in Latin America. American girls do not seem to understand it.

Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

There is no pill, no drug, that can do for you what one hour of exercise can.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.