The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my 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.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.