Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
I talked once with Harrison Ford about Wright's houses and how impressive they are.
The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.
I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.
I'd like to be a student in Rabindranath Tagore's school in Santiniketan in around 1915, dancing in the dance-dramas he wrote.
