That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

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.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.