It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

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

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.