Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit, I like the color.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.