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.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

We're physiologically wired differently.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.