“When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.”

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

I’ve always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

Eating out doesn’t have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it’s badly done.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I cook for a living; I’m not a scheduler.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.

There’s no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

I am what I am. A fighter.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.

A father doesn’t say, ‘Don’t go that way.’ He says, ‘come follow me.’

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.

A twenty three year old hits on me in a coffee shop in venice, and I ask him if father is single.

I wonder if we have a lot of sons running around saying, “I want a Dad.” But you won’t abide in anyone.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids, I didn’t have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that’s what I gravitated to.

Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.

That’s actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.