I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

Only twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

There is no recipe for success - it is as unique as you are

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson.

Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.