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.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

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

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.

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.