I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I work from the inside out.

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.

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

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.