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"My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper."
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"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public."
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"I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom."
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"My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me."
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"My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures."
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"I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better."
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"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
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"We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it."
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"My mom is definitely my rock."
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"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying."
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"Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve."
Being
"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
Fun
"Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part."
Life
"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school."
Music
"You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?"
Change
"Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese."
Mom
"I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day."
Food
"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."
Building
"Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff."
Home
"I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm."
Father
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