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

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

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

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.