What's wrong with transforming food?

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.

I’ve learned a hundred secrets, a thousand mysteriesand a million more.But of all the lessons I learned, the greatest is love.

The whole night I was thinking and dreaming to give you the most beautiful gift and that is my heart.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

Theres nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. Its bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.

I did not glow with the thrill of battle. Cringe, yes. Glow, no.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

Every question does not deserve an answer.

It's hard for bands to stick it out because people grow up, and it never really pays off. If you're looking for some sort of payoff, it's not gonna happen