JAMIE OLIVER

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

I've cooked just about everything really.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.

We opened a shop in Rotherham which does free demonstrations every day, six days a week and it's been very popular.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

My life is really so much based in England.

I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.

Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.