"I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there."

"It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?"

"It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?"

"There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them."

"If you're not Prince, you're never going to sound like Prince."

"Room service? Send up a larger room."

"Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it."

"We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach."

"I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies."

"You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary."

"I grew up in a funny way."

"I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed."

"I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler."

"I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook."

"I mean, families are weird."

"Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes."

"The problem with Yanks is they are wimps."

"I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality."

"It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money."

"I won't let people write anything they want to about me."

"They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have."

"My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school."

"I came up from a difficult background."

"I'd like to think I'm a great teacher."