I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

A critical ingredient which binds customers to a brand is trust

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.