It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.