If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.

I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.

I've discovered the burger is a crazy thing in Vegas, but I was one of the early chefs to do a lot of burgers.

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.