“It’s good to have fresh ingredients, but let’s not completely ignore some frozen ingredients.”

Vegetables are absolutely brilliant because as soon as they come out of the ground they are prepared and frozen instantly.

Stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

I certainly love a boogie and once the music starts I’m usually one of the first out there on the dance floor.

Although I haven’t had any formal dance training and something tells me I’m really going to notice the difference.

I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old.

When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen.

I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn’t shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

It’s possible to be completely enlightened… except with your family.

I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?