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One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.