I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

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.

Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

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

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.