I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

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.

We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

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

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

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