As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

For me to win at New Hampshire, first of all, is more than a stretch and more than a dream. This is probably one of my worst places.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.