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Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.

I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.

It was a real hand-to-mouth existence in those early days - I'd have whatever dry cereal there was in the house for breakfast, 30 cents to spend on lunch and a hot dog for dinner. I did that for years. So there was definitely a hunger in me, of various kinds, to succeed.

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.