Nate Berkus Quotes

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

I think everybody has the right to a private life.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

At some level I've got to have a private life.

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.

I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.

I do like having a private life.

I like my space.

I've had enough of being public property.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinements of even an attractive cage.

If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.

It's nobody's business how much I see my daughter or my grandkids, that's something personal that I care not to share.

I'm a fiercely private person in general, and like to keep my personal life personal.

My personal life was my personal life and no one's business.

I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.

My personal life is only my business and the business of the people who are close to me.

If I go to the city, I'm happy that I'm free, that nobody knows who I am. I guess we have done a good job there in keeping the private life really private.

When I was growing up with Chris, I was the little brother that was kind of annoying: 'Can I come?' 'Get out of here.' 'Can I play?' 'Get out of here.' So that's our relationship. I just do my own thing. I leave him alone.

I can be in a beautiful, loving and caring relationship, but it can't be 24x7 and 30 days a month. At the end of the day, I need my time alone.