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

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

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.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

I work from the inside out.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.