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.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

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

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.