I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.
“I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.”
“I was hired as a sous-chef at a restaurant on the Upper East Side. The chef liked to drink - some mornings we would find him sleeping. Two weeks after its opening, I became the chef. I was 20 years old, and way over my head. I had to hire the cooks and do the menus.”