I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

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.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

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 don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.