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.

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.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

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.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.