To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
Marc Newson
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.
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 sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
If I can feel freedom then I can create.
My life style in a sense is kind of private.
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
I don't like to make my life like a book.
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
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 doing exhibitions.
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
