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

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

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.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.