What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to GO FORWARD, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are STILL the best-dressed.

Bad boys are classy and REFINED. For example, EVEN though Donald TRUMP came from money and a PRIVILEGED lifestyle, he's a MAN's man.

I'm probably not going to DEVELOP to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more REFINED. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really SEE that as SOMETHING I want to EXPLORE.

Audiences in the U.S. can SOMETIMES be a lot less refined. If they LIKE something, they tend to EXPRESS it more LOUDLY.

I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius COOK, and I PICKED that up from her. I MAKE my own sauce, which takes four hours, from a recipe that's been refined over many YEARS. I won't TELL anybody what it is.

I heard NIRVANA, and discovered that songs COULD be like POETRY, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 VERSES to get your point across.

The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of REGIONAL chefs to address the PUBLIC's increasing consumption of processed FOODS, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and MEAT.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things LIKE drawing and reading. And I was RAISED in a family where MANNERS were important. Maybe that's why I SEEM so refined.

It's always been BASED AROUND the song, and guitar-playing in the service of the song... The SENSIBILITY is about SONGS. I LIKE to think of it as kind of 'refined primitive.'

I always IMAGINED that magically, at some point, I would SETTLE into this very easy and REFINED sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't KNOW how much I've learned over the YEARS.

Mustard oil is not popular in Kerala at all. We have coconut oil and REFINED oil. I've TRIED some sweets and, of COURSE, the FAMOUS fish, hilsa! I have a COOK here with me, so he made it in our style.