"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."

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

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

"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."

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

"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."

"I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories."

"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually."

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

"Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again."

"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."

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

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

"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."

"If I can feel freedom then I can create."

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

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

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

"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."

"I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more."

"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."

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

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

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

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