Quotes from Guy Fieri

I've been using the same hair wax for as long as I can remember. I'm not a gel guy, I'm not a perfume guy, not really into any of that.

Get off the beaten path... If you want to find those mom-and-pop joints, those funky little places, just ask around.

College students want good eats. They want it to not be super-expensive, but you've got to be eclectic, you've got to have style, and you've got to make real food.

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.

I don't eat sweets. I'm not a big dessert guy.

I'm a stocky 210 pounds.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

There's been quite a few conversations between me and my wife; she'd like to see my hair brown again. So who knows what will happen.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.

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... Real food for real people.

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.

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.

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 it tastes really good, and it's funky, it's funkalicous. If the guy making it is funky, he's funkintacious.

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.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Why can't we have a concert with food? Your typical cooking demonstration, there's just no enthusiasm. There's no energy behind it. I said, 'What if we take a cooking demonstration and fortify it with a lot of good music? ... Drive it to the next level?'

My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a real good teacher for me about organics, recycling, composting -whenever you hear me talk about it, it's usually because of my sister's influence.

I'm not a celebrity chef. I'm a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping.

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.

People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You've got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There's something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us.