If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.