The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.