In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.