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To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even liked his food. It's hard to spend hours perfecting a dish only to relinquish control. But chefs need to put aside their egos and trust the people serving the food.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.