Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

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.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.