We're physiologically wired differently.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

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

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

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