My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.