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

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.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

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.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.