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

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

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

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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

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.

The design industry is really pathetic.