I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

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.

Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence.

Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

False praise is worse than no praise.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

Never invest in a business you can't understand