I'm a do-gooder liberal.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

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

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

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

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.