Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

We're physiologically wired differently.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.