Everything that can strengthen Abu Mazen is favourable.

Wok cooking is intimidating, but it's the most versatile and handy tool in your kitchen.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

It's essential to make sure you have proper kitchen tools for food storage - like cling wrap, bags, and containers - because they help keep food fresher longer.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

I never try and tune anything out. I think that's a mistake. You want to bring all the honest stuff that's going on inside you into your work. Otherwise, you're keeping a lot of authenticity out.

When in doubt, make plays.

Nike Air Zooms are what I usually run in. In the kitchen, I wear a beaten-up pair of Converse All-Stars in winter and Keds in summer.

Interestingly, songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

You have to be savvy and sharp and also straightforward with your customer. I think that authenticity is really important.