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

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

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

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

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

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.