As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

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

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.