When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.