Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I’m very opinionated.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.