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.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

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

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

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