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

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.

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.