Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

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.

You've got to like the people you work with.

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

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

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