Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

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.

Memories stuck under our shoes like thick mud

Sorry, one night stands don't stack up as credentials for tending bar.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

And this is what you get for laughing at me." He pulled her up a few inches until his lips touched hers.

We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.