I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.