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

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recognize me. Obviously, I'm not a film star, but even at a design exhibition or art exhibition, if someone comes up to me, I'm sort of taken aback. I don't think of myself like that. But if I can have an effect on young designers, that's great - particularly young designers coming from Australia. Europeans grew up with design. The rest of us lived on tidbits of information.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

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

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch