Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!
Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Whether I'm making a gluten-free cookie or a lactose-free milkshake, my end goal is always to make it so awesome, clever, and creative that you'll want to indulge whether you have a sensitivity, dietary nuance, or don't.
Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
I've always wanted a straight-up cooking show since I was a child.
The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.
I'll eat anything, even foods I've always shunned, when a friend cooks it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
