The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

What is important is that we stop and realize, "Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.