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If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

There are so many ingredients that are approved for use. You can't be an expert on all of them.

I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

Once you start thinking about where your products come from and what they 'do,' that's going to be an inherent part of your choice as you purchase products throughout your life.

I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.