If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14 it's being washed up right after.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.

To me the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

For me family always comes first I would do anything to protect them.

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad I had no focus had no real interest in anything and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

I don't have anything against my mom but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family I have little time for anything else.

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta yes but not a lot of it.

The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else because no matter what you do you've got to come home.