"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 and live and work to be able to design for them."

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"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 and live and work to be able to design for them."

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"Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer."

Curiosity

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."

Home

"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 does - like ambushing people."

Design

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

Being

"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 create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."

Creativity

"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 powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration."

Design

"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 book that will be out next January."

Future

"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 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."

People

"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 open."

Relationship

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

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