It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television ….

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different..

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there..

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerfu….

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is sa….

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you..

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move ….

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a boo….

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more op….

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to creat….

I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested..

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward..

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded..

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can..

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself..

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible f….

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the comp….

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 ….

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they con….

The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually do….

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying ….