I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

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