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There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

I am a huge proponent of having a water filter of some kind in your home.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.

Nothing is worse than a home that is too perfect and done. You have to live in it.

I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.