In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.