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.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

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

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.