“Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.”

I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day

He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”

It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.

One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health

The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.

Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.

So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,

My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.

I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.

It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.

I have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.

There’s a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.

Once in a while it vanishes – in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.

Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you’ll be fine.

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.