I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

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.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.