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

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

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.