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

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.