The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

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

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

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