We're physiologically wired differently.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

We're physiologically wired differently.

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