I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

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

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

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.

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.

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

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.