I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

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

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.