I left this shallot race. I wanted to make another style of restaurant. I didn't want the stars anymore, but I can't do anything. Michelin says they give stars to whomever they want.

I didn't believe in this luxurious and expensive system any more. Those bills at 400 euros, we don't need them anymore.

I'm very happy and proud of my two stars. But that won't make me change my philosophy.

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it

When you win a race like this the feeling is very, very good.

I will connect with New Yorkers fed up with old-style politics and who see this race as about celebrity and personality.