I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

- Marc Newson

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

- Marc Newson

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

- Marc Newson

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

- Marc Newson

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

- Marc Newson

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

- Marc Newson

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

- Marc Newson

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

- Marc Newson

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

- Marc Newson

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

- Marc Newson

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

- Marc Newson

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

- Marc Newson

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

- Marc Newson

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

- Marc Newson

I don't like to make my life like a book.

- Marc Newson

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

- Marc Newson

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

- Marc Newson

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

- Marc Newson

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

- Marc Newson

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

- Marc Newson