Nobu Matsuhisa Quotes

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

Writing about food is my default.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

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

Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

'Boom' is my heart. The 'kack' is my soul. Apparently when I choreographed I didn't realize that I said 'boom-kack' 'boom-kack.' I had no idea I was doing it and then I realized that it's every time I felt like the fight in my soul - the boom and the kack - was like my heart. It was like the love of it - my heart and soul.

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

I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.

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.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Cooking is creating emotion.

I wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love.

Make your heart bleed! Put your soul into that damn thing. And try new things.

The ideas that you find funny and the things that you are offering to an audience are tied up with who you are and your soul and your heart.