The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping. Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.

My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn't down with that.

I can't bake anything. I'm the worst. My cakes always come out flat.

Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

I try to hike at least three times a week when I'm home in Sonoma County.

People need to take a little bit more risk.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

We are not blessed with junk food - my family and my kids do not eat fast foods.

Kids love food. It's about putting materials out there that get kids thinking about food - to get kids interacting about food. It's about simple things, like kids thinking about pasta - getting kids to work with food.

I need to stay disciplined on the road. Too much food can wreck your palate.

I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.

I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

I love to cook for people. It's my honor, honestly. It's what I have to give.

I love 'Iron Chef' and I love 'Chopped.' I watch both of them. I think it is crazy what those chefs go through.

I say to folks all the time, 'Watch what you're eating. You don't have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn't mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.' Have an awareness.

I always tell my family - and they laugh about it - but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin, who's a big vegetarian, tells me flat out, 'You're my favorite vegetarian chef.'

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

I'm in a very unique position in that I got to participate in the Food Network by contest. That's long gone, being voted on, but I don't forget where it came from, and I don't forget the people who worked to put me here.

Whenever you get to change somebody's life or watch it and see it happen, it's amazing.

I look at a basketball laying on the ground, and it makes me think of something. Popcorn ball. How 'bout a spicy popcorn ball? That is how my mind is always working.

I'm a collector, so I've got all kinds of sunglasses. I'd say I've got about a buck ten, buck twenty.

I never knew I would go this far, but I was told by people it wouldn't happen, and now I own four restaurants, and I have one of the best shows on the Food Network. I'm living in the Super Bowl of food.

I'm a huge kale fan.

I think there's a misconception that I eat everything. The one or two bites that you see me take, that's it.

When you love the competition, the opportunity to achieve at simple but challenging games, some people are really into it, and I'm one of them.

Contrary to popular belief, I eat all types of food. Fried food is my least favorite.

When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.

If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably didn't wear blue jeans and a T-shirt to fancy things, if I didn't do things that make me look like someone who's whacked out of their mind, it'd probably be different. But then again, that's how I wanna dress.

It's football all day on Sunday. I wish we had football every day; that would make me way happier. Why can't we have that? You've got all these teams! Why can't we just play a Monday game, a Tuesday game, a Wednesday game?

I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.

I'm gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We're only gonna have a few tables, and we're only gonna cook what's fresh that day. We're gonna get back to the basics.

I definitely eat in moderation and exercise.

Howie Mandel is the real deal.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

I've been using the same hair wax for as long as I can remember. I'm not a gel guy, I'm not a perfume guy, not really into any of that.

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it.

I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.

I love that UNLV is a big-little school, that you can still have access and support as a student.

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

I really believe you've gotta put the power in the people. They're the ones who are gonna make the experience.

Avocados that haven't fully ripened will lack the big flavor you want for your dip.

People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor.

I've never been an apron fan; it's all too cumbersome to me.

Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.

What you see is what you get with me. There's no show.

I'm not a greasy food guy. I don't eat like that.

Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don't subscribe. I don't buy in.