That's My Job. To Imagine Harder Than

Being On Oprah? You Realize That There Are A Couple Of Types Of Audience Members. There Are Like The Cult People In The Audience Who Are Just Crying Before She Gets On. And Then There Are The People Who Are Playing It Cool. I Definitely Was Somewhere In The Middle.

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.

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.

And The Relationships That Happen Become So Intense, Deep, Involved And Complex And Really Hard To Say Goodbye To. The Hardest Part Of The Show Is Saying Goodbye When It's All Done. It Really Breaks You.

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.