I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.