I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.

You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

I have done nothing wrong.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.