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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."
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"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
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"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
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"Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them."
Apples
"I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless."
Want
"After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service."
Food
"We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!"
Food
"We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents."
Parents
"I love people, and I'm excited that I can turn them on."
Love
"I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines."
Nothing
"When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!"
Business
"The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise."
People
"I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant."
Work
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