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

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.