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I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

I'm just a vessel of information.

I drink no more than a sponge.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it's like making a casserole. There's a flurry of activity to begin with; then it's about leaving it to rest.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.