Quote

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempts at home improvement projects went awry.

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

I am a plumber. Just a plumber.

I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.