I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.