And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

We're physiologically wired differently.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.