I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

There are still a few of us booklovers around despite the awful warnings of Marshall McLuhan with his TV era and his pending farewell to Gutenberg.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

You are never too lost that God cannot reach you.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

If you find a neighbor in need, you're responsible for serving that neighbor in need, you're responsible for loving a neighbor just like you'd like to love yourself.

I look at what is happening with Ryan Giggs at Manchester United now and I am dismayed that Liverpool are letting that experience leave.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

I don't accept flowers. I take nothing perishable.

Man is greater than the gods.