You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction. Everybody’s an artist. Unfortunately we don’t treat them as such.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

You've got to like the people you work with.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

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.