You've got to like the people you work with.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

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

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.