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

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

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.

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

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.

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

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.