I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more experimentation. Budgets had gotten quite large for art, as they had for architecture. I'm not going to cut back. The minute someone walks through my door, I go, "That's my thing and you got to let me do it."

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

I like the fact that I like to think out-of-the-box. Thinking out-of-the-box goes along with dressing out-of-the-box and living out-of-the-box. If you want to come up with a really original design idea and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.