But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

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

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

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.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

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

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

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

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

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

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

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

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

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

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

I'm pretty much a chocolate guy. I'm up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.

A coal mine greets you with only one sentiment, then hammers it: 'This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people'.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

There's something about being amid the chaos and the horror of a war that makes you appreciate all you don't have - and all you may lose forever.

Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.