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

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

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.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

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

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.