Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.
The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
I don't believe in low-fat cooking.
In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
I don't like conflict.
Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.
