The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

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're physiologically wired differently.

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

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

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

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.