There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.
I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.
And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.