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

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

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.

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

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

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

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.

I’ve learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.

I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me – that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.

The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.