I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.

In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: "That must be nice."

I hate to do what I'm told, that's why I'm not good at 9-to-5s.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

Not everyone wants to be sexy everyday, wearing tight dresses and spanx.

I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.