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I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.