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.

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

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

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies.

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

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

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.