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

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.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

With foreign officials come foreign merchants, and with foreign merchants come foreign soldiers. They will usurp our authority and influence to begin with, and in the course of time, our guests will have become our hosts.

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

I am worth it.

Some day I shall be President.

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

In central banking as in diplomacy style conservative tailoring and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.