I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

You've got to like the people you work with.

There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.

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.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.