You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

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.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.