Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.

As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.

Just imagine you are dying tomorrow. Everyday. You will be much kinder to the world, there will be more love in you. That way.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Without music the world will still turn, but it won't rock.

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to join together as a confederation in an eternal league.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.