There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.