Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

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 see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

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.