The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.