Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

I work from the inside out.

There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.