I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

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.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.