I work from the inside out.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

We're physiologically wired differently.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.