Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and so quickly. It's un….

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doi….

My life style in a sense is kind of private..

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free..

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books..

I don't like to make my life like a book..

You know like it has its own personality, its own character..

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection..

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture..

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture..

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture..

Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier….

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse.….

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things..

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree..

If I can feel freedom then I can create..

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculptu….

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting..

But to me, to be original is to be yourself..

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me..

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you..