I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come in with their cups of coffee and stuff. And so I get here and I have a spot for a cappuccino machine, and it didn't work. So I don't have any cappuccino ... I didn't miss the cappuccino, I missed the idea of cappuccino.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.