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

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" 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 never try and do the same show, ever. The audience controls the dynamic of the shows. Sometimes they listen, and sometimes they ask a million questions. "

" 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 tell anyone who will listen to me: On a cruise, you can be with all these people, or you can be by yourself. You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert. "

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

" 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. "

" Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. "

" Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working! "

" If you are AC/DC, you don't get credit for slow songs. And if you are doing a show about food with a blond dude with crazy blond hair and tattoos who drives a hot rod, of course everyone is going to think everything you eat is deep-fried. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, 'Oh my gosh, you're just like you are on TV.' Well, I'm not an actor. I don't think anyone could figure out how to be this weird. "

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

" I cannot get enough farro. "

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

" No one likes rubbery chicken. "

" 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.' "

" Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network. "

" After a show, people say, 'I bet you want to just sit back and relax.' No way. First thing I want to do when I'm home is cook. "

" My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over. "

" You don't have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger. "

" I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle. "

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

" The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families. "

" Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience. "

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

" I get influence from everybody and everything. "