I've got around 400 cookbooks..

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work..

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways..

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide..

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos..

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right..

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy..

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste….

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards..

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep..

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure..

I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a….

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock..

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault..

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day..

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream..

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, t….

As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything i….

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't car….

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed..