One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

In the art world Robert Rauschenberg had been combining common materials that people thought was art and beautiful, and it was. If he could do that, I could emulate him.

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.