Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

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.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

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