Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.