Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

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

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.

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.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.