Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.

Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.