Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

I think that it's a great time to be a designer.

I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

I never thought I'd be able to design all the things I've been able to design. I thought that I'd be far more limited to a specific kind of work, and I've been able to establish an incredibly broad practice in all different ways, and it's because the expectations have gotten elevated.