Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and 'Meet the Press,' all that fun, exciting stuff.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.