Jamie Cullum Quotes

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.

I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

With food, you're the artist; you put the colour in it, you present it to the table and it has the ability to knock out the senses. It can look fabulous, be beautifully presented and smell great and taste good as well.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Cooking is an art form, a creative thing.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

I like to make everything and I can really cook.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

Music is a kind of magical thing, and you can't make magic every time, but you try. Every once in a while it has that magic, and the audience knows that. I probably miss it more than I hit it, but I think that's what all musicians try for.

You don't have to love cooking to cook, but you have to do more than love baking to bake. You have to bake out of love.

It's so important for me to keep a good house. I take a lot of pleasure in cooking and I think there is a lot in common between cooking and film-making. You put all these ingredients together to make something wholesome. Except the rewards in cooking come a little sooner.

Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.