Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

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.

I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.

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

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

What happens is people - especially, I think, audiences in the United States - people confront new things a little bit afraid. It's like when you're a kid and your mother puts something on your plate you never ate before. I think that American audiences are very much like that, and when they can accept something new they can accept the next new thing, it's incredible. And what happens is that their expectation of what things should be is elevated, and that's really terrific for us.

The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public.