Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings.

For me, every day is a new thing.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.