The birth of any show is always a rough one.

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.

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

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.

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.

I think Temple is wrong. I don't think I'd dig that kind of art party at all.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.