No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.
I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.
Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.
Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out.
I think that I had a very clear vision when I started writing cookbooks what I wanted it to be, and that you would open the book, that you would look at the photograph and go, that looks delicious. And then you would look at the recipe and say, I can actually make that and I can make it with ingredients I can find in the grocery store.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.
Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.