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.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

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.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.