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" It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato. "

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" I barely speak English. "

" Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain. "

" California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it. "

" In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot. "

" America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody. "

" I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. "

" I find the organic wave much more interesting in America than in France. "

" I'm fascinated by Japanese cuisine. "

" Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know. "

" I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do. "

" A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not. "

" Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing. "

" Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts. "

" It has been stressful to be a French resident in America. "

" I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too. "

" The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad. "

" I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you. "

" I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them. "

" I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere. "

" I like working in silence. "

" I'm a very bad baker. "

" When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain. "

" I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in my mind. I don't need the precision of the picture. "

" I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family. "

" When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing. "

" I don't follow the food trends. "

" A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all. "

" Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking. "

" If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat. "

" As young cook, especially in France, they're very tough in the kitchen. The idea is to make you humble and learn fast. "