Jenny Holzer Quotes

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.

I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.

We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.

I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

Martha Stewart's my idol.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

I started by hacking around the back yard in Richmond.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.