If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

I have a very Socratic approach - I pummel the designers with questions, so when I get them to step back from the work and look at it with me, they'll eventually see what I see, coming to it fresh and unencumbered. That's always very gratifying because they feel a responsibility and an ownership of a solution.

Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.