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I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We're construction guys first and foremost.

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

I don't know anything about the hotel business.

If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.