I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
“I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.”
“The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.”