My father passed away before he saw me perform. I can't help but wonder what he would think of all this. I go to a job in full makeup.

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.

Our very genesis was not really a beginning after all, but indeed the product of a personality-Father Mills.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

There is no knowledge without risk taking.