Quotes from Marco Pierre White

Life is an emotional rollercoaster. It really is.

'Kitchen Wars' makes 'MasterChef' look like a walk in the park!

When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious.

Restaurants should be democratic; you shouldn't be made to feel privileged for getting a table or being lectured by the waiter.

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

Perhaps I created the monster Ramsay, who ended up as a TV personality screaming at celebrities on 'Hell's Kitchen,' doing to them what I had done to him.

My pet hate, with customers, is those that think it's all about wallets.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

You'll never see me at award ceremonies.

Remember, restaurateurs are only shopkeepers; that's all we are. It's no different from the supermarket down the road.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of parsley at the end, little bit of olive oil. It's about making the food deliciously tasty.

Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a restaurant, you've got to feed people, not make pretty little pictures on plates to make up for your lack of ability.

The reason I do television is because we all have to work and earn a living, as I have four children. It's also a platform for me to share my knowledge and inspire the young.

There's something rather comforting about putting on an apron.

I love the countryside, which is where I live and feel most comfortable, and hate being surrounded by herds of people.

A lot of people say I look like a rock star or a designer punk. But I swear it's the job that has carved my face. It's the hours, the stress, and the pressure. It's not me trying to look like this.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

Females make better cooks than men. Females have a better palate. They have a better sense of smell. They never take shortcuts; this is why they're very good in kitchens. The weakness in what they do is they are not as physically strong as men, so they're never really given the opportunity.

My cooking attracted celebrities. I met Sylvester Stallone. He squeezed my bicep and said: 'I don't usually eat your kind of food, but for you, I ate it.' I haven't got a clue what he'd eaten but he asked me to cook for his wedding feast when he married Jennifer Flavin at Blenheim Palace.