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.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

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.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

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.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

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