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

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

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

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.