I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

I work from the inside out.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.