I like women. I enjoy the company of women. What's wrong with that?

My wife is a very clever woman. She knows when to say something and when to bite her tongue.

I'm the kind of guy who can't stay still.

My favorite breakfast that is nutritious and very quick to do is eggs. Of course not everyday because that's not good for you, but I like to have eggs in the morning at least three times a week as it gives me a lot of energy.

The problem that people have is that they eat too large portion sizes. Italians have been eating pasta for hundreds and hundreds of years, and we've never been an obese nation. We do the pasta, the pizza, all the cheeses, but it all has to do with how much you eat.

I came from a very lower-working-class family in Torre del Greco.

I always remember my mum and dad arguing a lot and one main reason was lack of money. I realized very young that I always wanted to make money so I'd never have the same arguments like my mum and dad.

My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but because I never wanted to, it was the only thing we argued about.

My worst buy has always been cars and boats. I used to own two Ferraris, but as much as they're beautiful, they're a waste of money.

My grandfather used to be a chef and I remember going to his restaurant to peel potatoes and clean his floor. He used to go out and kiss all the girls in the restaurant and I thought 'oh this is good... one day I want to be like him.'

I do what I want, I say what I want and I do it when I want. I live my life the way I want to live it, which I think people appreciate it.

Nowadays, everyone writes a cookbook. Models, singers, whatever, everybody thinks that they can do it and cook on TV. What they don't understand is that if you want to do it well, you need to put in the hours.

My mother would never say anything I cooked for her was great. She was always a 'Yeah, but' person. When she tasted my food, I used to say to her 'Don't tell me too straight, lie to me!' She couldn't even understand why I was on television.

My kids are not allowed to be fussy eaters. The problem with fussy children is their stupid parents. I run a family kitchen and in my house we don't have options. I never had options, why should they?

I'd much prefer to be at home with my family than go out.

We have a big garden; there's a swimming pool, and we keep chickens. I love them. I love getting up in the morning and collecting the eggs.

I'm a great believer in telling my children about turning my life around and I work a lot with younger teenagers when they are in trouble.

It was totally insane doing goat yoga in San Francisco.

There is a huge misconception that you need to spend hours in the kitchen to produce something special.

I had never seen an avocado until I came to London in 1994. They just weren't a feature of southern Italian cuisine.

I always travel with my iPod and I've never read a book in my life. It makes me tired; my brain is not set up for reading.

My grandfather was a chef and would make everything himself, including the wine, and had his own huge pizza oven. All the neighbors used to come over and use it to bake their bread.

I have wonderful memories of growing up on a farm with chickens running all around in the small southern Italian town of Torre del Greco.

Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never eating a carbonara sauce with a tub of cream in it.

You'll never see an Italian go on a diet.

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.

When I was eight years old, my mum and dad took me skiing in Valle d'Aosta in northern Italy. I'm not usually a huge fan of snow or cold places, but I loved the fact that we were together as a family.

Every summer I sail to a small island called Cavallo, which lies between Sardinia and Corsica.

I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.

Italy is a hot country. Wherever you feel heat, your excitement and passion come out. We're hot-blooded, and where there's passion there's love, but also anger, hunger, excitement.

My wife often goes out with male friends for dinner and I go out with female friends. We have different holidays. We're together six months of the year and when we're together, we're together.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

I don't like lakes generally. It's a glorified pond, isn't it? I live by the sea, so for me I need to taste salt. I prefer the mystery, the majesty of the sea.

The best place to go in Italy for a summer holiday is the island of Sardinia.

Always buy dry pasta, not fresh. 90 percent of Italians use dried pasta as it keeps its al dente shape more perfectly when cooked.

People panic in the kitchen and they don't need to. The first thing to do is to open a nice bottle of wine and relax.

Italian wines don't have to be expensive to be good. It is absolutely ridiculous that people feel that have to spend a fortune.

I get asked for cooking tips all the time.

Since I turned 40, my ambition is to spend more time with my family.

There is no way on Earth I'm going to get a call from 'Bake Off!' It is a British institution. People sit down to watch it with a cup of tea. The last thing they want is Gino D'Acampo!

But my wife doesn't often allow me to cook in our kitchen at home. She says that I'm messy and I don't clean up after myself!

I can cook in front of millions of people on TV, I don't care. But cooking for my own family really freaked me out. If they don't like it, they tell you.

A key rule for every cook should be not to buy food when it's out of season because it's expensive and tastes awful.

I never tried to convince my wife to move to Italy. She wouldn't have liked that.

I think every lady wishes their husband would cook.

My mum and dad weren't wealthy people. We used to have pasta every day, meat once a week, fish was once every two weeks, presents only at Christmas and birthday.

We don't do spaghetti and Bolognese sauce together in Italy. That is technically wrong because when you lift up the spaghetti the sauce will just run down. The way to do it is to use pasta like fettuccine or tagliatelle so the sauce sticks to it.

As far as Italian ingredients, I always have one of those plants of fresh basil in the house, and some mozzarella in the fridge.

A lot of food shows are people wanting to become celebrities, rather than encouraging people to cook.

I don't do cookery shows to show off, I do it to encourage people. What's the point in going on TV and doing a recipe that no one can replicate?