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I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

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

When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?