The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

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.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

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'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.