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.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

There's a drive in us to express ourselves in some way or form. We pick up whatever material is available. It's primitive. Kids see sand on the beach, build something and show their parents: "Look what I did, Mama." It's necessary to us.