I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

New Zealand looks like the future to me

I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.