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

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

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

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

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