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

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

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

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.