We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

For me, every day is a new thing.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.