Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be “communicated with.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

And here I always thought morality was useless.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Drama is something that lets you know you're still alive.

I hear the criticism loud & clear That is how I know that the time is near

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.