Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's unlike anywhere else in the world.

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

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

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

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.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.