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 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.

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.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

If we protect the ‘underhand’ [those working under us], then the ‘boss’ will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the ‘underhand’, then the boss will constantly reprimand us.

Gregory: Go to hell.Dane: I'd be glad to leave you in it.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.

Some nights I sleep like a baby. Other nights it's, Oh God, I just came up with a bomb shot.

I'm hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80's and 90's, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.