I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
My dad heard of a studio on the radio, and it was advertised as a place for kids to meet kids, and it was actually a studio, and that's where I met my manager and agent.
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.
Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.
I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.
