“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.””

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.

If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”

I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.

When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.

I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.

In the early ’90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.

I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.

I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain – I’ve always had a soft spot for this little club.

I have to throw in on a personal note that I didn’t like history when I was in high school.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men’s troubles and that will comfort you.

Water is the best of all things.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

On recovering my senses

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.