You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

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

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.