In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

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

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.