Good design is good business.

I think it's an entirely new idea. People were dancing before I came into the nightclub business but I still did something that had never been done before. 50 Gramercy Park North is a new kind of hotel, and not the kind people will be expecting from me. I am hoping to have the same impact with it that I had 20 years ago.

Good design is good business.

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.