Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.