The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Hope is the greatest gift and the greatest evil...Hope saved us and hope might yet kill us.

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

The best defense against partisanship is expertise.