There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.
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.
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.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.