All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

In this remark, McCartney presents a side of celebrity life grounded in ordinary enthusiasms: learning skills, collecting tools, and consuming media for pleasure and self-improvement. The specificity—Food Network, a cheesemaking class, cookbooks, and Anthony Bourdain—frames cooking not as a passing hobby but as a serious, identity-shaping interest. The final line about owning a restaurant underscores a common aspirational arc: moving from fandom to practice to entrepreneurship, while acknowledging the collaborative reality of restaurants (success depends on “the right chef”). Overall, the quote humanizes him and suggests a desire for craft, authenticity, and a creative outlet beyond music and acting.