When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef.

Nobu Matsuhisa Quotes